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Alfonso López Michelsen was a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the 24th President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978. He was nicknamed "El Pollo",a popular Colombian idiom for people with precocious careers.
María Stella Márquez de Araneta,often styled as Madame Stella de Araneta,is a Colombian-Filipino pageant director and beauty queen. She grew up in New York City and moved back to Colombia,where she became a pageant titleholder. As Miss Colombia,she was crowned the first Miss International in 1960. She obtained her Filipino citizenship via naturalization in 1970.
Diomedes Díaz Maestre was a Colombian vallenato singer,songwriter,and composer. His nickname,"El Cacique de la Junta",was given to him by another vallenato singer,Rafael Orozco Maestre,in honor to Díaz's birthplace.
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Cristian Moreno Panezo is a Colombian politician and lawyer from the Universidad del Atlantico with a specialization in constitutional law from the National University of Colombia. On October 28,2007 Moreno was elected as Governor of Cesar Department for the period 2008-2011. He became the first independent candidate to win in the Cesar Department.
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Alfredo Cuello Baute better known as "Ape Cuello" is a Colombian politician and business administrator. He has served as a member in the House Representative of Colombia. He represented the Cesar Department with the endorsement of the Colombian Conservative Party since 2002. During the 2014 legislative elections he was elected with 32,119 votes and in the 2018 legislative elections he obtained 55,615 this being the largest vote for the House of Representatives in the history of the Department of Cesar.
María Concepción Loperena de Fernández de Castro was a Colombian independence activist and patriot who supported the armies of Simón Bolívar in the independence of Valledupar. She was also an abolitionist who freed hundreds of slaves on her properties in Becerril and La Jagua de Ibirico.
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