93 Notable alumni of
Pontifical Javeriana University
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Pontifical Javeriana University is 393rd in the world, 9th in Latin America, and 1st in Colombia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 93 notable alumni from Pontifical Javeriana University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Gustavo Petro
- Enrolled in Pontifical Javeriana University
- In 1994 studied economics
- Occupations
- partisanwriterinternational forum participanteconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego is a Colombian politician, economist, and former member of the M19 armed guerrilla movement. He has been serving as the president of Colombia since 2022. Upon his inauguration, he became the first left-wing president in the recent history of Colombia.
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Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento
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- diplomatlawyerpoliticianeconomistjournalist
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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.
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Paulina Vega
- Occupations
- presentermodelbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Paulina Vega Dieppa is a Colombian TV host, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 2014, she previously was crowned Miss Colombia 2013. Vega is the second Miss Universe from Colombia.
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Ernesto Samper
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- lawyereconomistpoliticiandiplomat
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Ernesto Samper Pizano is a Colombian politician. Samper is a member of the influential Samper family. He served as the President of Colombia from 1994 to 1998, representing the Liberal Party. From 2014 to 2017 he served as the Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR).
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Jorge Enrique Abello
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- actorfilm directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Jorge Enrique Abello is a Colombian actor.
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Catalina Sandino Moreno
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- actorpainterfilm actor
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Catalina Sandino Moreno is a Colombian actress. She shared the Silver Bear with Charlize Theron and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her leading role in Maria Full of Grace (2004). As of 2022, she stars as Tabitha Matthews in the MGM+ television series From.
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Carlos Pizarro Leongómez
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- partisanpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Carlos Pizarro Leongómez was the fourth commander of the Colombian guerrilla group 19th of April Movement (Movimiento 19 de Abril) (M-19). Pizarro later ran for president of Colombia after the demobilization of M-19 that transformed the group into the political party, M-19 Democratic Alliance (Alianza Democrática M-19) (AD/M-19). Pizarro was assassinated on 26 April 1990.
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Kristina Lilley
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- film actoractor
- Biography
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Kristina Lilley is an American and Colombian actress.
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Peter Claver
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- missionary
- Biography
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Peter Claver SJ was a Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary born in Verdú (Spain) who, due to his life and work, became the patron saint of enslaved people, the Republic of Colombia, and ministry to African Americans.
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Mario Mendoza
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- journalistwriterteacher
- Biography
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Mario Mendoza Zambrano is a Colombian writer, professor, and journalist.
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Fonseca
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- songwritersinger
- Biography
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Juan Fernando Fonseca Carrera is a Colombian singer. Born in Bogotá, he chose music at an early age, studying music formally at institutions such as Javeriana University in Bogota and Berklee College of Music in Boston. Fonseca's self-titled debut gained him considerable attention in Colombia. His second album released Corazón (2005) explored the crossroads where pop/rock influences meet vallenato, bullerengue, and tambora. Gratitud followed in 2008, with Ilusión arriving in 2011.
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Rodolfo Llinás
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- physicianneurologistneuroscientist
- Biography
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Rodolfo Llinás Riascos is a Colombian and American neuroscientist. He is currently the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. Llinás has published over 800 scientific articles.
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Marta Lucía Ramírez
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- diplomatmodelpolitician
- Biography
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Marta Lucía Ramírez Blanco is a Colombian lawyer and politician who served as 12th Vice President of Colombia from 2018 to 2022. She also served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia. In 2018, Ramírez became the first woman elected to serve as Vice President of Colombia, running on a ticket with Iván Duque. In 2021, after the resignation of her predecessor Claudia Blum, she was pronounced chancellor by the president Iván Duque.
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Misael Pastrana Borrero
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- lawyerpoliticianuniversity teacherdiplomat
- Biography
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Misael Eduardo Pastrana Borrero was a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd President of Colombia from 1970 to 1974. He was also the father of the 30th President Andrés Pastrana Arango.
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Fernando Vallejo
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- film directorbiologistwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Fernando Vallejo Rendón is a Colombian-born novelist, filmmaker and essayist. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007.
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Álvaro Gómez Hurtado
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- diplomatjournalistpolitician
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Álvaro Gómez Hurtado was a Colombian lawyer, politician, journalist and active member of the Colombian Conservative Party. Gómez was a son of the former President of Colombia, Laureano Gómez. He is mostly remembered for being one of the writers of the Colombian Constitution of 1991, for running three times for the presidency, without success, and for his murder at the hands of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. He served separate appointments as ambassador to Switzerland, Italy, the United States and France, beginning in the 1940s.
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Yasna Provoste
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- politicianteacher
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Yasna Provoste Campillay is a Chilean teacher and Christian Democrat politician of Diaguita descent, who served as minister during the presidencies of Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet. Since 11 March 2018, she has been a senator for the Atacama Region, for the period 2018-2026.
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Fernando Carrillo Florez
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- diplomatlawyereconomist
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Fernando Carrillo Flórez is a Pontifical Xavierian University educated lawyer and economist, with postgraduate studies from Harvard University. He served as Colombia's 11th Minister of the Interior from 2012 to 2013, and 55th Minister of Justice from 1991 to 1992.
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Piedad Córdoba
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- politicianlawyeractivist
- Biography
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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.
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Paulina Dávila
- Occupations
- film actor
- Biography
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María Paulina Dávila is a Colombian actress.
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Armando Benedetti
- Occupations
- politicianjournalist
- Biography
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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.
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Andrés Orozco-Estrada
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- conductorviolinist
- Biography
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Andrés Orozco-Estrada is a Colombian violinist and conductor, with dual nationality in Colombia and Austria.
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Gina Parody
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- politicianlawyerjurist
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Gina María Parody d'Echeona is a Colombian politician. Born in Bogotá in 1973, Parody graduated as a lawyer from Pontifical Xavierian University and became a politician. She has served as Director of the National Learning Service (SENA), as a Senator, as member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, and most recently as Minister of Education.
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Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez
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- writerphilosopherteacher
- Biography
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Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez is a Colombian-Brazilian philosopher and former Minister of Education of Brazil.
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María Lucía Fernández
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- news presenterjournalist
- Biography
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María Lucía Fernández is a Colombian journalist and news presenter. She worked as a model in her teens to afford her studies in Social Communication at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. As news presenter, she worked in TV shows like Panorama, QAP Noticias and 7:30 Caracol. Since 1998, she's one of the main newsreaders at Caracol Noticias. She also worked at Caracol Radio until 2004.
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Jorge Franco
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- writer
- Biography
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Jorge Franco Ramos is a Colombian writer, known primarily for his novel Rosario Tijeras, which has been adapted for film and television.
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Daniel Samper Pizano
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- journalistlawyerwritereditorial columnist
- Biography
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Daniel Samper Pizano is a Colombian lawyer, journalist, and prolific writer.
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Daniel Samper Ospina
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- writerYouTuberjournalisthumoristpublisher
- Biography
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Daniel Samper Ospina was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1974. He is a Colombian comedian and columnist, and previous director of adult magazine SoHo from 2001 to 2014. He also wrote for Revista Semana.
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Ignacio Martín-Baró
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- Catholic priestuniversity teacherpsychologistphilosopher
- Biography
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Ignacio Martín-Baró was a scholar, social psychologist, philosopher and Jesuit priest. He was one of the victims of the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador.
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Jorge Alfredo Vargas
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- journalisttelevision directornews presenter
- Biography
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Jorge Alfredo Vargas Angulo is a Colombian journalist and news presenter.
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Óscar Iván Zuluaga
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- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Óscar Iván Zuluaga Escobar is a Colombian politician and economist who was the Democratic Center's nominee for President of Colombia in the 2014 election. He won the most votes in the first round of the election and but went on to lose to the incumbent Juan Manuel Santos Calderon in the second round.
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Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno
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- economistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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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.
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Claudia Palacios
- Occupations
- journalistwriternews presenter
- Biography
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Claudia Isabel Palacios Giraldo is a Colombian journalist and newscaster. She is best known as the weekend news anchor on CNN en Español, a position she held from 2004 through 2012. She is currently both a news anchor on CM& Television in Colombia and a journalist for the Colombian magazine El Pueblo.
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Jéssica de la Peña
- Occupations
- news presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Jéssica Annais de la Peña Camargo is a Colombian television presenter and journalist.
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Brigitte LG Baptiste
- Enrolled in Pontifical Javeriana University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in biology
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Brigitte Luis Guillermo Baptiste, is a Colombian cultural landscape ecologist and an expert on environmental issues and biodiversity in Colombia. She is a member of the Multidisciplinary Expert Panel of the Intergovernmental Science and Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and has been part of the national representation to the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. She served as director of the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute from 2011 until 2019. In September 2019, Baptiste became the director of Universidad Ean. She considers that queerness and ecology are linked together.
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Elsa Noguera
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- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Elsa Margarita Noguera de la Espriella is a Colombian politician. She was the vice presidential nominee for the Radical Change in 2010, and in 2012 she was elected mayor of Barranquilla, the capital of Atlantico. She later served as the Minister of Housing, City and Territory. In 2020 she was elected the governor of the Atlantico Department, where Barranquilla is located.
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Laura Tobón
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- journalistmodeltelevision producerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Laura María Tobón Yepes is a Colombian presenter, model, singer, and YouTuber.
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Simón Brand
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- film directoractor
- Biography
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Simón Brand is a Colombian film director. Brand has directed more than 200 TV commercials for companies such as Coca-Cola, Coors Light, AT&T, Apple Inc., BMW. He has also directed music videos for artists such as Paulina Rubio, Thalía, Juanes, Shakira, Alejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin.
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Rodrigo Armando Lara Sánchez
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- physicianpoliticianenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Rodrigo Armando Lara Sánchez is a Colombian politician and physician who was mayor of Neiva from 2016 to 2019. Lara Sánchez was the vice presidential candidate of Federico Gutiérrez of the Team for Colombia coalition in the 2022 presidential election, which they ended on third place.
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Vanessa de la Torre
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- journalistnews presenterwritercolumnist
- Biography
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Gloria Vanessa de la Torre Sanclemente is a Colombian journalist. She is currently the week midday co-anchor of Noticias Caracol and is the presenter of the research program El rastro.
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Maria Juliana Ruiz
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- lawyer
- Biography
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María Juliana Ruiz Sandoval is a Colombian politician who served as First Lady of Colombia from 2018 to 2022. She is married to Iván Duque, who became former president of the country on 7 August 2018 to 2022, succeeding Juan Manuel Santos.
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Ángela Robledo
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- environmentalistpoliticianpsychologistsocial scientist
- Biography
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Ángela María Robledo Gómez is a Colombian psychologist and left-wing politician. Currently a member of the Chamber of Representatives, Robledo is a former dean of psychology at Pontifical Xavierian University.
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Noemí Sanín
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- lawyerjuristpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Marta Noemí del Espíritu Santo Sanín Posada is a Colombian-born politician and diplomat. She was the Conservative party candidate in the 2010 Colombian presidential election.
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Álvaro Leyva
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- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
- Biography
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Álvaro Leyva Durán is a Colombian lawyer, economist, politician, human rights defender and diplomat. He has been the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Colombia in the government of Gustavo Petro since 7 August 2022. On 7 February 2024, he was suspended from his ministerial position for three months over an investigation into potential violations of procurement laws.
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Jorge Villamil
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- physiciancomposersongwriter
- Biography
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Jorge Villamil Cordovez was a Colombian composer and songwriter born in El Cedral, a large coffee plantation near Neiva (Huila). He was one of the most prolific and important composers of Colombia and South America. Villamil's talent was evident when he learned to play Colombian tiple at 4 years of age. He was the youngest and only male of a family of 7.
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Santiago Gamboa
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- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Santiago Gamboa is a Colombian writer.
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Inés María Zabaraín
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- news presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Inés María Zabaraín Pinto is a journalist and newscaster, mainly known for presenting Noticias Caracol of Caracol Television until 2011.
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Fernando Londoño
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- politicianlawyereconomist
- Biography
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Fernando Londoño Hoyos is a Colombian politician, lawyer, and economist. A longtime member of the Colombian Conservative Party, Londoño served as the 1st Minister of the Interior and Justice of Colombia from 2002 to 2004 during the Administration of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
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Roberto Gerlein Echeverría
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Roberto Víctor Gerlein Echeverría was a Colombian lawyer and politician. A Conservative party politician, he was the longest-serving and most senior Member of the Senate of Colombia having been first elected in 1974. During his long political career, he served also as a Member of the Chamber of Representatives (1968–1974), as the 10th Colombian Minister of Economic Development, and as the 42nd Governor of Atlántico. He died in Barranquilla on 23 December 2021, at the age of 83.
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Cecilia Álvarez-Correa Glen
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- politicianengineerinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Cecilia Álvarez-Correa Glen is an Industrial Engineer and Colombian politician who served as Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia under President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. Álvarez-Correa is credited as the second woman to hold this post in Colombian history. Previously, Álvarez-Correa served as the 12th Minister of Transport of Colombia.
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Claudia Blum
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- journalistpoliticianpsychologistdiplomat
- Biography
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Claudia Blum Capurro is a Colombian psychologist and politician who served as foreign minister. A veteran Senator, she became the first woman to serve as President of the Senate of Colombia. She also served as the 26th Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations.
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Luis Carlos Villegas
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- diplomatpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Luis Carlos Villegas Echeverri is Colombian politician, lawyer and economist. He was the Governor of Risaralda, and previously served as the Colombian Ambassador to the United States. He served as the Minister of Defence from June 2015 to August 2018.
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Pilar Quintana
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- writer
- Biography
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Pilar Quintana is a Colombian writer. She was born in Cali and studied at the Javeriana University in Bogota. In 2011 she attended the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa as a writer-in-residence, and in 2012 the International Writers Workshop of the Baptist University of Hong Kong as a visiting writer. She has published five novels and a short story collection, Caperucita se come al lobo. She is best known for her novels La Perra and Coleccionistas de polvos raros.
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Fernando Araújo Perdomo
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- engineerpoliticiancivil engineerdiplomat
- Biography
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Fernando Araújo Perdomo is a Colombian politician. He was the Minister of Development during the administration of Andrés Pastrana. He resigned from this post after the Chambacú land deal scandal. He was later kidnapped by the FARC-EP guerrillas and held for six years until he eventually escaped. Two months later after his liberation, President Álvaro Uribe appointed him as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Mariana Mesa
- Occupations
- tennis player
- Biography
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Mariana Mesa Pineda is a Colombian former professional tennis player.
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Héctor Valer
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Héctor Valer Pinto is a Peruvian politician who served as Prime Minister of Peru from 1 February 2022 to 8 February 2022.
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Jackeline Rentería
- Occupations
- professional wrestler
- Biography
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Jackeline Rentería Castillo is a female wrestler from Colombia. She won a bronze medal in the women's freestyle 55 kg at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and repeated the feat in the women's freestyle 55 kg category at the London 2012 Summer Olympics. She reached the semifinals in both tournaments, losing to the eventual silver medalists and winning the repechage bout. With her second medal she tied Helmut Bellingrodt, an Olympic Sports Shooter as the most decorated Colombian Olympian. In the Rio 2016 Olympics, they were joined by Óscar Figueroa in Weightlifting, Caterine Ibargüen in Triple Jump and Mariana Pajón in BMX. She is studying at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and also at the Universidad de Thomas Gomez.
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Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Camilo Restrepo Salazar was the 10th Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Colombia, serving in the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. A veteran politician, he also served as the 63rd Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia, the 17th Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia, the 20th Ambassador of Colombia to France, and as Senator of Colombia. A lifelong member of the Conservative Party, he tried to run for the Conservative presidential nomination in 1998, losing in the primaries, and 2002, where he won the primaries but withdrew before the election.
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Riyad al-Maliki
- Enrolled in Pontifical Javeriana University
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- politiciancivil engineerinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Riyad al-Maliki is a Palestinian politician and former Minister of Information, government spokesperson, and Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority in its 12th government. He also resumed office as Foreign Affairs Minister in the current 13th government.
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Hernán Orjuela
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Hernán Orjuela Buenaventura is a Colombian television presenter. He used to be the host of Sábados Felices.
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Juanita Gómez
- Occupations
- journalistreporternews presenter
- Biography
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Juanita María Gómez Lora is a Colombian journalist and presenter of news.
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Aurelio Iragorri Valencia
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- lawyercivil servantpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Aurelio Iragorri Valencia is the 12th Minister of the Interior of Colombia, serving in the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. Iragorri, who had served as Deputy Minister of the Interior from 2010 to 2012, also served as Santos' Chief of Staff, and as High Presidential Advisor for Political Affairs.
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Luis Carlos Restrepo Ramírez
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- philosopherpsychiatrist
- Biography
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Luis Carlos Restrepo Ramírez is a Colombian psychiatrist and philosopher, who served as the 5th High Commissioner for Peace of Colombia from August 2002 to March 2009.
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Alexandra Moreno Piraquive
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Alexandra Moreno Piraquive is a Colombian lawyer and politician, who served as Senator of Colombia from 2002 to 2014.
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Gustavo Bell
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerhistorianpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Gustavo Adolfo Bell Lemus is a Colombian politician, lawyer, economist and diplomat who served as vice president of Colombia from 1998 to 2002 under the administration of Andrés Pastrana Arango, during which time he also served concurrently as High Commissioner for Human Rights of Colombia and as Minister of National Defence between 2001 and 2002. He also served as the Colombian ambassador to Cuba from 2011 to 2017. In 1992, as the 53rd Governor of Atlántico, he became the first popularly elected Governor of the Department following the enactment of the 1991 Colombian Constitution.
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Diego Molano Vega
- Occupations
- international forum participantengineer
- Biography
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Diego Molano Vega is former Minister of Information Technologies and Communications of Colombia. He was appointed as minister by President Juan Manuel Santos since 2010.
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Ricardo Silva Romero
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- journalistwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Ricardo Silva Romero is a Colombian writer, journalist, screenwriter and film critic. He is the author of over a dozen books in a variety of genres. In 2007, he was named as one of the Bogota39, a list of best young writers in Latin America.
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Rodrigo Hernan Lloreda Caicedo
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Rodrigo Hernán Lloreda Caicedo was a Colombian lawyer and politician who was appointed to several senior positions under different presidents, with both domestic and foreign affairs responsibilities, beginning in 1968 as appointed governor of his department and briefly as ambassador to the United States. In his last post, Lloreda was the 17th Minister of National Defence, serving under President Andrés Pastrana Arango from 1998 to 1999.
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Gustavo Gómez Córdoba
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Gustavo Ernesto Gómez Córdoba is a Colombian journalist and writer, whose work has been recognized with awards including Journalist of the Year in 2010. He began working in Cromos magazine in the 1990s and became prominent as a national radio broadcaster starting in 2005, when he joins the team of 6AM Hoy x Hoy from Caracol Radio. He also writes for SoHo magazine and another significant media.
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Freddy Padilla de León
- Occupations
- engineerdiplomat
- Biography
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General Freddy José Padilla de León is a retired General of the Army of Colombia and currently serves as Ambassador of Colombia to Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Vienna. Prior to this diplomatic post General Padilla served as the General Commander of the Armed Forces of Colombia from 2006 to 2010, and as such assumed the Ministry of National Defence ad interim in 2009.
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Iván Leonidas Name Vásquez
- Occupations
- environmentalistpolitician
- Biography
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Iván Leonidas Name Vásquez is a Senator of Colombia. A Green party politician he reached the Senate in 2010 after serving as Member of the Chamber of Representatives, Councillor for Bogotá, and Deputy to the Cundinamarca Departmental Assembly.
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Francisco José Lloreda Mera
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- lawyerwriterpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Francisco José Lloreda Mera is a Colombian lawyer, politician, writer, editor and newspaper director. He is serving as High Presidential Advisor for Coexistence and Citizen Security in the Administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. He previously served the government as Ambassador of Colombia to the Netherlands and as Minister of National Education of Colombia.
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Guillermo Fernández de Soto
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Guillermo John Roque Fernández de Soto Valderrama is a Colombian lawyer and diplomat, who has served as Secretary General of the Andean Community of Nations, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia, Ambassador of Colombia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and designated-Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotenciary, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations in New York.
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Juan Carlos Esguerra Portocarrero
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Juan Carlos Esguerra Portocarrero is a Colombian lawyer and politician. He has previously served in the Colombian Government as the 7th Minister of Justice and Law, the 28th Ambassador of Colombia to the United States, and as Minister of National Defence.
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José Lebrún Moratinos
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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José Alí Lebrún Moratinos was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Caracas. Besides his native Spanish, he spoke Italian, Latin and French.
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Jorge Enrique Jiménez Carvajal
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Jorge Enrique Jiménez Carvajal C.J.M. is a Colombian prelate of the Catholic Church who was archbishop of Cartagena in from 2008 to 2021. He was bishop of Zipaquirá from 1992 to 1994 and archbishop coadjutor of Cartagena from 2004 to 2005.
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Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga was a Colombian Roman Catholic prelate.
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Camilo Prieto Valderrama
- Occupations
- environmentalistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Camilo Prieto Valderrama is a Colombian physician, climate science professor, and researcher. He is the founder of the NGO Movimiento Ambientalista Colombiano. He has received several awards for his work. He is WINS Ambassador.
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Mercedes Chaves Jaime
- Occupations
- psychologisteducator
- Biography
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Mercedes Chaves Jaime was a Colombian psycopedagogue, professor and educational researcher. Chaves established herself as a notable Vygotskian pedagogue in Latin America.
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Joseph Gumilla
- Occupations
- writernaturalist
- Biography
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Joseph Gumilla was a Jesuit priest who wrote a natural history of the Orinoco River region.
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Gloria María Borrero
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Gloria María Borrero is a Colombian politician who served as Minister of Justice from 2018 to 2019.
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Gloria Stella Díaz
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Gloria Stella Díaz is a Colombian lawyer and politician. In 2015 she was elected Councillor of Bogotá D.C. for the 2016-2019 term. She was a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia for Bogotá from 2006 to 2014, representing the Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation (MIRA) party. Díaz was temporary Senator in replacement of Senator Alexandra Moreno Piraquive in 2004.
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Vicky Colbert
- Occupations
- sociologistpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Vicky Colbert is a Colombian social entrepreneur.
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Jorge Iván González
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- philosophereconomist
- Biography
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Jorge Iván González Borrero is a Colombian philosopher, economist and university professor. From August 2022 to February 2024 he served as Director of the National Planning Department, the third most important cabinet-level position in the National Government.
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Laura Abril
- Occupations
- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Laura Valentina Abril Restrepo is a Colombian cross-country mountain biker. She was junior world champion in 2008. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's cross-country at Hadleigh Farm, but didn't complete the race.
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José de Cascante
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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José Cascante, José de Cascante or Joseph Cascante was a Colombian Baroque composer and organist.
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Santiago Cepeda
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Santiago Cepeda is a Colombian poet and novelist.
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Juan Pablo Plata Figueroa
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- journalistnovelistliterary criticwriter
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Juan Pablo Plata is a Colombian writer, journalist and researcher.
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Luis Fernando Correa Bahamon
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- economistdiplomat
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Luis Fernando Correa Bahamon is a Colombian business man, philanthropist, and investor. He is an important leader in the hotel and construction industry in Colombia.
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Junkookn
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- historianjournalistwriter
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Lupe Cajías de la Vega is a Bolivian journalist, historian, and writer. Cajías has focused her career on journalism, though she is also the author of books such as Historia de una Leyenda, vida y palabra de Juan Lechín Oquendo (1988) and Valentina. Historia de una rebeldía. Likewise, her career has been recognized with the UNICEF national award in 1986, as well as the Erich Guttentag Award for the novel Valentina. Historia de una rebeldía in 1996 (this award was replaced by the National Novel Award two years later).
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Juan Manuel González Torres
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- politician
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Juan Manuel González Torres is a Colombian politician. He served as governor of the Colombian department of Meta from 2006 until 2007.
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Victor Quesada
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- theatrical directorwriter
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Victor Quesada is a Colombian theatre director, playwright and writer.
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Rafael Francisco Amador Campos
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Rafael Francisco Amador Campos is a Colombian lawyer and politician currently serving as Ambassador of Colombia to Russia. A Liberal party politician, he served in Congress as Representative for Cundinamarca on two separate periods of two terms each, first from 1982 to 1990 and then from 1998 to 2006, and was twice elected Senator of Colombia for the same legislative period, first in 1990, and then again in 1991 following the ratification of the 1991 Constitution, and served until 1994.
