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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe
Álvaro Uribe Vélez (born 4 July 1952) is the 39th President of Colombia and is currently serving his second term in office. In August 2010 he was appointed Vice-chairman of the UN panel investigating the Gaza flotilla raid.
Uribe started his political career in his home department of Antioquia. He has held office in the Empresas Públicas de Medellín and in the Ministry of Labor and in the Civil Aeronautic. Later he held office as the mayor of Medellín in 1982, then he was Senator between 1986 and 1994 and finally Governor of Antioquia between 1995 and 1997 before he was elected President of Colombia in 2002. Under his presidency, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have suffered a series of military defeats, the main paramilitary groups have gone through a demobililization process and he has spearheaded several Free Trade Agreements with different countries.
Before his current role in politics Uribe was a lawyer. He studied law at the University of Antioquia and completed a post-graduate management program at Harvard University.[2] He was awarded the Simón Bolívar Scholarship of the British Council and was nominated Senior Associate Member at the St Antony's College, Oxford in the University of Oxford after completing his term in office as the governor of Antioquia in 1998.
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In May 2007, the American Jewish Committee gave Uribe its "Light Unto The Nations" award. AJC President E. Robert Goodkind, who presented the award at AJC's Annual Dinner, held at the National Building Museum in Washington stated: "President Uribe is a staunch ally of the United States, a good friend of Israel and the Jewish people, and is a firm believer in human dignity and human development in Colombia and the Americas".
During the previous eight years of outgoing President Uribe’s and Defense Minister Santos’ rule, over 2 million, mostly rural poor, were forcibly uprooted and driven from their homes and land and displaced across frontiers into neighboring countries, or to urban slums. The Uribe-Santos regime relied on both the military and the 30,000 member paramilitary deathsquads to kill and terrorize entire population centers, deemed “sympathetic” to the armed insurgency, affecting several million urban and rural poor. Over 20,000 people were killed, many, according to the major Colombian human rights group, falsely labeled “guerrillas”. Santos as Defense Minister was directly implicated by the Courts in what was called “false positives”. The military randomly rounded up scores of poor urban youth, shot them and claimed a resounding victory over the FARC guerrillas.
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Colombia Reports
April 24, 2018
The social media team of Medellin Mayor Federico Gutierrez created fake social media profiles that were used to attack opponents of former President Alvaro Uribe, a local university found out. The University of Antioquia (UdeA), the most respected public university in Medellin, investigated the possibleÃÂ ...
Colombia Reports
April 21, 2018
A supporter of former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe was forced to spend a night in jail after he had sent death threats to several people on Twitter. Attorney Ariel Ortega was arrested on Thursday and released on bail on Friday for threatening the cartoonist Julio Cesar Gonzales known as “Matador.”.
Colombia Reports
April 16, 2018
Unknown assassins have murdered another witness in one of the criminal cases against Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe, local media reported on Sunday. The victim, Carlos Enrique Areiza, admitted in 2016 that he had falsely accused Senator Ivan Cepeda of trying to bribe him into incriminatingÃÂ ...
Colombia Reports
April 9, 2018
Colombia's Supreme Court ordered increased protection for one of the last living witnesses in a criminal case over the violence-ridden past of former President Alvaro Uribe after multiple assassination attempts. Juan Guillermo Monsalve was taken to a safe house after the son of one of Uribe's formerÃÂ ...
Colombia Reports
April 8, 2018
Colombia's military executed far more civilians than guerrillas when former President Alvaro Uribe led the country between 2002 and 2010, according to new study. According to former police colonel and sociologist Omar Rojas and historian Fabian Leonardo Benavides, the security forces executedÃÂ ...
Colombia Reports
April 3, 2018
It was 1981, and Governor Ivan Duque reportedly called the country's aviation chief, Alvaro Uribe, to warn him about a license granted to a known Medellin Cartel associate. The cartel associate was Jaime Cardona, according to former journalist Joseph Contreras who would become Newsweekôs Latinà...
Colombia Reports
March 31, 2018
Hard-right former President Alvaro Uribe is Colombia's “eternal president,” according to the front-runner in the presidential election race, Ivan Duque. Critics warn of a cult of personality. Duque's controversial praise follows months of polarization and an apparent radicalization of the “uribistas” whoseÃÂ ...
Colombia Reports
March 29, 2018
Colombia's powerful former president, Alvaro Uribe, fueled suspicion that he has authorized the illegal mining of private data to support his prodigy in ongoing elections. Revelations that Cambridge Analytica (CA) stole private user data from social media platform Facebook to promote the 2016 election ofÃÂ ...
Colombia Reports
March 4, 2018
Alarm bells started ringing in Bogota after protesters were forcibly removed from Popayan's city center after disrupting a campaign event of hard-right former President Alvaro Uribe. The situation ahead of the May 27 elections became even more alarming after an alleged assassination attempt on leftistÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
February 17, 2018
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Colombia Reports
January 10, 2018
Colombia's election race is causing cracks in the conservative coalition that won a referendum in 2016 to sink a peace process with the country's largest guerrilla group. The idea of hard right former President Alvaro Uribe and a dissident faction of the Conservative Party was to come with one candidate inÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
... to give up arms then put them in jail for 30 years. Alvaro Uribe, former Colombian president and staunch detractor of what he calls peace with impunity, took to social media to insult Mujica calling him a criminal, and to attack Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos for “partnering with narcoterrorism.”à...
WTOP
November 23, 2017
She also says she would like to have military generals and even former President Alvaro Uribe, one of the peace agreement's chief critics, ...
Eurasia Review
October 22, 2017
No other political figure is as polarizing in Colombia as ex-president Alvaro Uribe. President from 2002 to 2010, Uribe used U.S. aid under Plan ...
Laredo Morning Times
September 16, 2017
Allies of incumbent President Juan Manuel Santos and his predecessor Alvaro Uribe, who between them have dominated the political sceneÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
September 16, 2017
... until he left in 2005, as a result of the demobilization of 31,000 paramilitaries implemented during the government of President Alvaro Uribe.
Liberal Democrat Voice
September 15, 2017
In 2002 Alvaro Uribe was elected president on a tough anti-FARC ticket. Uribe made good on his campaign pledges. President Manuel SantosÃÂ ...
Colombia Reports
September 13, 2017
Colombia's Supreme Court on Monday convicted former President Alvaro Uribe's initial intelligence chief for setting up an illegal spy unit thatÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
September 13, 2017
Colombia's Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez over his involvement in an illegalÃÂ ...
Jersey Evening Post
September 8, 2017
... second-largest city with his predecessor and arch-rival, Alvaro Uribe. Previously the two had refused to appear together at any papal events.
The Sun Daily
September 6, 2017
... unsuccessfully to mediate between President Juan Manuel Santos and the lead opponent of the accord, conservative leader Alvaro Uribe.
teleSUR English
August 26, 2017
The former right-wing President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, again called for a military intervention in Venezuela, on the same day that theÃÂ ...
Colombia Focus
August 14, 2017
Gerardo Inzunza is a freelance, independent journalist who writes for Colombia Focus from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Gerardo coversÃÂ ...
Colombia Reports
August 14, 2017
Senator Ivan Duque is the most popular of candidates loyal to Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe, under pressure because of mountingÃÂ ...
Colombia Focus
December 31, 1999
Gerardo Inzunza is a freelance, independent journalist who writes for Colombia Focus from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Gerardo coversÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who is connected to far-right paramilitaries in his country, promoted an intervention in Venezuela byÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
March 21, 2017
... that created a series of private surveillance and security cooperatives called Convivir that offered special services where public forces were deemed in need of reinforcement.
Colombia Reports
March 20, 2017
Then-president Cesar Gaviria, with the strong support of then-governor of Antioquia Alvaro Uribe, legalized the formation of civilian militias in 1994.
gulfnews.com
March 14, 2017
Noticeably absent were the members of the Democratic Center, a right-wing party led by former president - and current senator - Alvaro Uribe, a fierce opponent of the peace plan. Senator Ivan Duque, speaking on the party's behalf, said during the ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
March 11, 2017
Ten years ago: President George W. Bush, continuing his tour of Latin America, met with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Five years ago: Sixteen Afghan villagers - mostly women and children - were shot dead as they slept by U.S.
Colombia Reports
March 9, 2017
When some of Colombia's most corrupt politicians organize a march against corruption for April 1, you might think that would be a good April Fool's prank.
Study Breaks
March 9, 2017
AT: Teachers are obviously a large part of the learning process, so would you say that working with professors like Alvaro Uribe have helped you along the way? ML: Working with a professor and designer as successful as Alvaro has helped me understandÃÂ ...
WLRN
March 9, 2017
Trump Colombians: You wanted a more conservative U.S. president, like former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Fine. You also got a U.S.
PanAm Post
March 2, 2017
That is why the last survey carried out by the pollster Gallup shows a deterioration in the image of current president Juan Manuel Santos, ex-president Alvaro Uribe, Vice-President Vargas Lleras, and the peace process. With regard to President Santos ...
Jacobin magazine
March 1, 2017
Under former president Alvaro Uribe (one of their closest allies in government and a persistent opponent of peace talks with FARC) the paramilitaries received a lenient peace agreement, and they all supposedly demobilized.
Center for Research on Globalization
February 27, 2017
They were nominated for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. Instead it went to narco-state terrorist Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia's president.
teleSUR English
February 24, 2017
Colombia's former president Alvaro Uribe said that he would be seeking another referendum to change the already approved peace deal between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla group.
teleSUR English
February 22, 2017
The conservative party Centro Democratico, led by the former far-right President Alvaro Uribe, is the main opposition force against the agreement and congressional efforts to enshrine it in law.
Latin American Herald Tribune
February 22, 2017
BOGOTA - Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who was discharged from hospital Tuesday after submitting to prostate surgery, asked for a suspension of peace talks between the government and the ELN until that guerrilla group accepts a "totalÃÂ ...
Prensa Latina
February 21, 2017
Leaders of the right-wing Democratic Center party, led by former paramilitary leader, Alvaro Uribe, announced in earlier days that if he wins the 2018 presidential election, the pact signed with the FARC-EP on November 24th, described as definitive by ...
teleSUR English
February 20, 2017
This investigation was opened by a representative from an opposition party, Alvaro Hernan Prada of the Democratic Center, the party of former President Alvaro Uribe. There is also an investigation into the campaign of Santos' opponent, Oscar Ivan ...
Asharq Al-awsat English
February 19, 2017
Latin Americans are understandably edgy these days. The region's economy is struggling, corruption scandals have spread like mosquito-borne disease, andÃÂ ...
FRANCE 24
February 17, 2017
Colombia recently reached a historic peace deal with FARC rebels, but that's not to everyone's liking. In parliament, the peace process has a strong adversary in Alvaro Uribe, the former president and now a senator, who supports an all-out war against ...
Colombia Reports
February 14, 2017
A Medellin court ordered not only to investigate the brother of former President Alvaro Uribe for forming his own death squads, but also for financing other paramilitary groups.
Newstalk 106-108 fm
February 13, 2017
Opposition to the new deal is being led by former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe who is also concerned about the agreement allowing for senior FARC members participate in mainstream politics.
Colombia Reports
February 9, 2017
'Former Colombia President Alvaro Uribe has distanced himself from his long-time political prodigy and former presidential candidate amid accusations he accepted bribes from Brazilian firm Odebrecht.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
February 8, 2017
Among those jailed was Bula, a little-known rancher who was a regional political ally of the senator cousin of former President Alvaro Uribe, Santos' chief opponent. According to the plea agreement, officials in Uribe's government received the bulk of ...
Beloit Daily News
February 8, 2017
Among those jailed was Bula, a little-known rancher who was a regional political ally of the senator cousin of former President Alvaro Uribe, Santos' chief opponent. According to the plea agreement, officials in Uribe's government received the bulk of ...
Colombia Reports
January 31, 2017
Uraba, one of the priority areas in Colombia's peace process, is a banana growing region with a history of labor exploitation and extreme political violenceÃÂ ...
Reliefweb
January 25, 2017
Carbonell said the ELN, which has battled a dozen governments since it was founded in 1964 and is considered a terrorist group by the United States and European Union, would allow former President Alvaro Uribe's participation in the talks. "We agree ...
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