Álvaro Uribe Vélez is a Colombian who served as the 31st President of Colombia from 7 August 2002 to 7 August 2010.
Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento was a Colombian liberal politician and journalist who ran for the Presidency of Colombia on two occasions,the first time for the political movement New Liberalism that he founded in 1979. The movement was an offspring of the mainstream Colombian Liberal Party,and with mediation of former Liberal president Julio César Turbay Ayala,Galán returned to the Liberal party in 1989 and sought the nomination for the 1990 presidential election,but was assassinated before the vote took place.
Botero is a surname of Italian origin,common in Colombia and along with other similar variants,it originated in the Piedmont region of Italy,more specifically,in the town of Bene Vagienna,province of Cuneo.
Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 28 May 2006. Álvaro Uribe was re-elected as President for another four-year term,starting on 7 August 2006. Uribe obtained 62.35% of the vote,surpassing the 50% needed to avoid a runoff against the second-placed candidate.
The Democratic Colombia Party was a political party in Colombia founded in 2003. After 2006,the small party was decimated by the parapolitics scandal,in which four of its five congressmen were forced to resign and several found guilty.
Carlos Emilio Gaviria Díaz was a Colombian lawyer,professor and politician. He served as the 5th Chief Magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Colombia,where he served as a Magistrate from 1993 to 2001. After retiring from the Court,he went into politics becoming a Senator of Colombia in 2002,and running for President as an Alternative Democratic Pole candidate in the 2006 presidential election,ultimately losing to ex-president Álvaro Uribe Vélez,who was seeking his second term in office.
Alberto Santofimio Botero is a Colombian politician,a member of the Colombian Liberal Party.
Álvaro Araújo Castro is a Colombian economist and former actor and Senator of Colombia. A Liberal politician,leader of the ALAS-Team Colombia political movement,and founder of Alternative for Social Advance (ALAS);he was arrested and jailed in 2007 for participating in parapolitics. Prior to serving in the Senate,he was also a Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from 1994 to 2001.
The Colombian parapolitics scandal or "parapolítica" in Spanish refers to the 2006–present Colombian congressional scandal in which several congressmen and other politicians have been indicted for colluding with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC),a paramilitary group which is responsible for killing thousands of Colombian civilians.
Fernando Botero Zea is a businessman and liberal politician of dual Colombia and Mexican nationalities,mainly known for having served as Minister of National Defense of Colombia and also for being an important businessman based in Mexico City. He is the son of Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero and cultural promoter and icon Gloria Zea.
Piedad Esneda Córdoba Ruiz was a Colombian lawyer and politician who served as a senator from 1994 to 2010. A Liberal Party politician,she also served as a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia for Antioquia from 1992 to 1994.
Gilberto Echeverri Mejía was a Colombian electrical engineer,businessman and politician who on 21 April 2002 was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC-EP along with the then-Governor of Antioquia Guillermo Gaviria Correa among others while participating in a peace walk and held hostage until 5 May 2003 when he was murdered by the guerrillas during a botched rescue operation by government forces deep in the Colombian northwestern jungle,bordering between Antioquia and Chocó. A Liberal party politician,he had previously served as Ambassador of Colombia to Ecuador from 1975 to 1977 in the Administration of President Alfonso López Michelsen,Minister of Economic Development from 1978 to 1980 in the Administration of President Julio César Turbay Ayala,Minister of National Defence from 1997 to 1998 in the Administration of President Ernesto Samper Pizano,and was working as peace advisor to Governor Gaviria before he was kidnapped.
Aníbal Gaviria Correa is a Colombian politician who has served as the governor of Antioquia since 2020. Prior to this,Gaviria was the Mayor of Medellín from 2012 to 2015 and served as a visiting scholar at University of California,Berkeley. He previously served as Governor of Antioquia from 2004 to 2007.
Italian Colombians are Colombian-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent,whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Colombia during the Italian diaspora,or Italian-born people in Colombia. Italians have been immigrating to Colombia since the early 16th century.
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.
Enrique de Jesús Gil Botero is a Colombian politician and lawyer,who was a Magistrate of the State Council,rapporteur of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights,and a specialist in Administrative and Constitutional Law.
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.
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 Somos Región Colombia Party,or simply Partido Somos,sometimes We are Colombia,was a Colombian political party and successor to the ALAS Team Colombia party,a center-right political alliance born from the merging of the Liberal Alternative for Social Advance (ALAS) party,founded by Álvaro Araújo Castro,and the Team Colombia party,which ran in the March 2006 Legislative Elections. ALAS Team Colombia was a part of a coalition of parties that supported the 2002-2010 Álvaro Uribe Vélez campaign and government. The alliance between the two parties ended in September 2009,after a mutual agreement to dissolve;ALAS retained its legal status as a party,while Team Colombia members mostly joined the Colombian Conservative Party. ALAS,however,did not obtain the necessary number of votes in the following 2010 Colombian Legislative Election to maintain its legal status as a valid political party. But,in 2017 it was able to restore its legal status as the Partido Somos Región Colombia.
Events of 1996 in Colombia.
