Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 26 May 2002. Álvaro Uribe,the candidate of the recently created Colombia First movement,was elected,receiving 53% of the vote by the first round. Uribe took office on 7 August.
Luis Alfredo Ramos Botero is a Colombian politician. Most recently,he was the Governor of the Department of Antioquia from 2008 to 2011.
Armando Alberto Benedetti Villaneda is a Colombian politician. He served as Senator of Colombia from 2006 to 2022 and Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from 2002 to 2006.
Juanita León García is a Colombian journalist,writer,and public speaker. She is best known as the founder and director of the news website La Silla Vacía.
La Silla Vacía is a Colombian news website founded by journalist and writer Juanita León in 2009. The site focuses primarily on Colombian politics.
Daniel Alfonso Coronell Castañeda is a Colombian journalist and Businessperson shareholder of the media Plural Comunicaciones. He has been news director for RCN,Noticias Uno,and president of Univision News,the news division of Univision,until August 1,2021. In September 2021 he was appointed as president of the weekly news magazine Cambio. In October 2021,Coronell started working for W Radio Colombia.
Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno is a Colombian diplomat,politician and economist. He is the current Ambassador of Colombia to the United States and former Minister of Defence. Pinzon comes from a military family,his father was a Colonel in the Colombian Army.
Luis Felipe Henao Cardona is a Colombian politician who was Minister of Housing,City and Territory of Colombia since 2013.
Juan Manuel Galán Pachón is a Colombian politician,currently serving as Senator of Colombia since 2006. He is the son and political heir of the assassinated political activist,politician,and presidential candidate,Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento. A former member of the Liberal party,he refounded his father's party New Liberalism in 2021.
Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 27 May 2018. As no candidate received a majority of the vote,the second round of voting was held on 17 June. Incumbent president Juan Manuel Santos was ineligible to seek a third term. Iván Duque,a senator,defeated Gustavo Petro,former mayor of Bogotá,in the second round. Duque's victory made him one of the youngest individuals elected to the presidency,aged 42. His running mate,Marta Lucía Ramírez,was the first woman elected to the vice presidency in Colombian history.
Federico Andrés Gutiérrez Zuluaga is a Colombian politician,civil engineer,who currently serves as the mayor of Medellín,having held this office previously from 2016 to 2019. Before being mayor,he had been a member of the Medellín municipal council from 2004 to 2011. A member of the Creemos Colombia party,Gutiérrez was the candidate for the 2022 Colombian presidential election as the winner of the primary of the conservative Team for Colombia coalition.
The Colombian peace process is the peace process between the Colombian government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC–EP) to bring an end to the Colombian conflict,which eventually led to the Peace Agreements between the Colombian Government of Juan Manuel Santos and FARC-EP. Negotiations began in September 2012,and mainly took place in Havana,Cuba. Negotiators announced a final agreement to end the conflict and build a lasting peace on August 24,2016. However,a referendum to ratify the deal on October 2,2016 was unsuccessful after 50.2% of voters voted against the agreement with 49.8% voting in favor. Afterward,the Colombian government and the FARC signed a revised peace deal on November 24 and sent it to Congress for ratification instead of conducting a second referendum. Both houses of Congress ratified the revised peace agreement on November 29–30,2016,thus marking an end to the conflict.
Media ownership in Colombia is highly concentrated. The four largest newspapers together account for two-thirds of total readership,and the two largest television channels have about two-thirds of the market and 78% of advertising revenues,according to a 2016 study by Reporters Without Borders and the Colombian Federation of Journalists.
David Luna Sánchez is a Colombian lawyer,politician,and former Minister of Information Technologies and Communications. Between 2006 and 2010 he represented the BogotáConstituency as a member of the House of Representatives.
Claudia Nayibe López Hernández is a Colombian politician. She was a Senator of the Republic of Colombia and was the vice-presidential candidate in the 2018 presidential election for the Green Alliance party. In October 2019,she was elected mayor of Bogotá,the first woman and as well the first openly LGBT person to be elected to this position.
Carlos Holmes Trujillo García was a Colombian dynasty politician,diplomat,scholar,and attorney who served as minister of defense,foreign affairs,interior,and education. He also served as the mayor of Cali and as ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS),the European Union,and a number of nations.
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.
The League of Anti-Corruption Governors is a Colombian political movement,created in October 2019 by the former mayor of Bucaramanga,Rodolfo Hernández Suárez,and by the candidates for the 2020–2023 municipal council. It was conceived as an independent civic alternative to traditional political parties and ideologies,with the purpose of reaching the presidency of the republic in the 2022 election. Earlier,in the 2015 local elections,Rodolfo Hernández managed to reach the Mayor's Office of Bucaramanga through an independent candidacy via the "Movimiento Cívico Lógica Etica y Estética",previously founded by Hernández to support his political campaign. In May 2022,Hernández finished in second place in the first round of the presidential elections,proceeding to the second round against Gustavo Petro. He finished in second place in the second round as well.
The Metapolitical Unitary Movement is a political party in Colombia. It is led by Regina Betancourt de Liska.
Camilo Ernesto Romero Galeano is a Colombian journalist and politician who served as Governor of Nariño from 2016 to 2019. A member of the Green Alliance,Romero was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2022 Colombian presidential election,losing the Historic Pact for Colombia primary to Gustavo Petro.
