Lorenzo Muelas Hurtado (born July 9, 1938) is a Guambiano activist and politician in Colombia. Muelas was one of the indigenous leaders who participated in the Constituent Assembly of Colombia in 1991. He was a member of the Senate of Colombia from 1994 to 1998. [1] [2]
Muelas was born on July 9, 1938, in Silvia, Cauca, Colombia. [3] Muelas was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Colombia in 1991 and was a co-founder of the Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca organization. He also co-founded the Indigenous Authorities of Colombia (AICO) political party. [4] According to a report by The New York Times , Muelas "escaped three assassination attempts since he left a local landowner's debt peonage system 35 years ago". [5]
In 1994, Muelas was elected to the Senate of Colombia with 270,000 votes in his favor, and served in the body until 1998. [6] In 2006, Muelas was elected Governor of Guambia, the highest position in his community. [7] Muelas is the author of La fuerza de la gente: juntado recuerdos sobre la terrajería en Guambía, Colombia, which chronicled his experience as an indigenous activist. [8] In a 2007 interview with Indian Country Today , Muelas criticized the United States over the Plan Colombia doctrine. [9]
Pedro Alonso López, also known as The Monster of the Andes, is a Colombian serial killer, child rapist, and fugitive who murdered a minimum of 110 people, mostly young women and girls, from 1969 to 1980. López claimed to have murdered over 300 victims.
The Indigenous Authorities of Colombia is a progressive indigenist political party in Colombia.
The Office of the Inspector General of Colombia is a Colombian independent public institution overseeing the public conduct of those in authority or in charge of exercising a public office, and of overseeing the correct functioning of other government institutions and agencies. The Office of the Inspector General of Colombia is not a judicial institution; it is one of the Colombian Control Institutions, alongside the Office of the Controller General. The Inspector General is also charged with safeguarding the rights of the people, guaranteeing Human rights protection and intervening in the name of the people in the defence of the public's interest.
Henry Loaiza Ceballos aka El Alacrán is a former Colombian drug trafficker and a member of the Cali Cartel. Loaiza was mainly in charge of the military apparatus of the organization, but was also involved in the shipment of illegal drugs.
Club Deportivo Zapata is a Mexican football club that plays in group 4 in the Tercera División de México. The club is based in Emiliano Zapata, Morelos, Mexico is one of the original Clubs that inaugurated the Tercera División de México in 1967-68 been the first champions.
Race and ethnicity in Colombia descends mainly from three racial groups—Europeans, Amerindians, and Africans—that have mingled throughout the last 500 years of the country's history. Some demographers describe Colombia as one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the Western Hemisphere and in the World, with 900 different ethnic groups. Most Colombians identify themselves and others according to ancestry, physical appearance, and sociocultural status. Social relations reflect the importance attached to certain characteristics associated with a given racial group. Although these characteristics no longer accurately differentiate social categories, they still contribute to one's rank in the social hierarchy. Public Library of Science (PLOS) genetic research determined that the average Colombian has a mixture of European 62.5%, native Amerindian 27.4%, African 9.2% and East Asian 0.9%. These proportions also vary widely among ethnicities.
Quebradona is a mining project started in 2002 in the municipality of Jericó Antioquia by the African Multinational AngloGold based on a presumed stable economic benefit to the communities from mining exploitation in a territory with an agricultural vocation. Since its inception, the process has been surrounded by several controversies and complaints.
The 2018 student protests in Colombia, or the national university strike in Colombia in 2018 was carried out between October 10 and December 16, 2018. It consisted of a series of protests and mobilizations carried out by students from public and private universities in Colombia due to the crisis of financing public education and its subsequent decision to its underfunding and the state repression of the country's student movements. It was carried out during the government of Iván Duque.
A series of protests began in Colombia on 28 April 2021 against increased taxes, corruption, and health care reform proposed by the government of President Iván Duque Márquez. The tax initiative was introduced to expand funding to Ingreso Solidario, a universal basic income social program established in April 2020 to provide relief during the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia, while the legislative Bill 010 proposed several changes in the health care system in Colombia.
Ramsés Ramos is a Colombian actor.
Francisco Vera is a climate change activist from Colombia. He has received numerous death threats because of his activism. President Ivan Duque of Colombia has promised the government will find the 'bandits' behind Twitter messages threatening Francisco.
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.
The Tasajera explosion took place in the village of Tasajera, municipality of Pueblo Viejo, Colombia on Monday, 6 July 2020. A tanker truck that was transporting gasoline to Barranquilla along a Caribbean road overturned in Tasajera. According to the Magdalena police report, the driver swerved, lost control, and went off the road; the driver was uninjured. Some of the villagers took advantage of the situation to collect the fuel. When they tried to steal the vehicle's battery by extracting it, the gasoline exploded, leaving 45 people dead and at least 19 injured.
Iván Urdinola Grajales, also known by the nickname 'El enano', was a Colombian drug lord who was one of the leaders of the notorious Norte del Valle Cartel. Co-perpetrator of the Trujillo massacre, which occurred between 1988 and 1992.
Daniella Donado Visbal is a Colombian actress, presenter, and model, recognized for her participation in television series in that country.
Carolina Cruz Osorio is a Colombian journalist, presenter, model, and businesswoman.
Jorge Iván Agudelo is a Colombian human rights activist, open water swimmer and a graphic designer. He is currently the first colombian to cross swimming Santa Catalina channel and the Kaiwi Channel.
Mery Janneth Gutiérrez is a lawyer specialized in contract law, specialist in management and ICT, as well as in insolvency regime appointed as Minister of ICT of Colombia on August 7, 2022. She is currently serving as Manager of Programar Televisión and legal adviser.
Danilo Alfonso González Gil was a former Lieutenant Colonel of the Colombian National Police. He became director of intelligence for GAULA, thus a key player in the rescue of the kidnapped brother of former President César Gaviria.
Renzo Alexander García Parra, is a Biologist and Magister in Conflict and Culture from the University of Tolima. He is nationally known for achieving the suspension of the La Colosa mining project through a popular consultation, as well as his defense of the environment in Colombia. Currently he is candidate for Mayor of Ibagué.