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Núñez spent the longest time in office with 10 years, 5 months, and 17 days, but having only spent 2 years, 1 month, and 11 days as the elected president of Colombia before his death. The longest serving elected president was Álvaro Uribe Vélez with 8 years between 2002 and 2010 having been re-elected for a second term in 2006. Ramón ...
In 1949 he was appointed by President Mariano Ospina Pérez as Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs but declined the offer. [5] However, four years later Valencia did accept the position and became Minister of Foreign Affairs on May 25, 1953, a post he held for the remainder of the administration of Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez until General ...
Name Term Acting President 1. Santos Gutiérrez 2. Eustorgio Salgar 3. Juan José Nieto Gil. 14.05.1863 - 06.04.1864 Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera: 06.04.1864 - 20.03.1865 1. José Hilario López 2. Santos Gutiérrez 3. Francisco Javier Zaldúa. 20.03.1865 - 17.02.1866 1. José María Rojas Garrido 2. Santos Acosta 3. Marcelino Gutiérrez. 17.02. ...
Colombia, [b] officially the Republic of Colombia, [c] is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest.
This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (August 2023) Part of a series on the History of Colombia Timeline Pre-Columbian period pre-1499 Spanish colonization 1499–1550 New Kingdom of Granada 1550–1717 Viceroyalty of New Granada 1717–1819 United Provinces of New Granada 1810–1816 Gran Colombia 1819–1831 ...
A bust of President Kennedy by Hungarian-Canadian Paul Lancz (1919-2005) stands on President Kennedy Avenue (French: Avenue du Président-Kennedy) in Montreal, Quebec. It was dedicated in 1986 and relocated in 2011 to a different site on the same street due to the development of the Quartier des spectacles .
The Colombian presidential line of succession is the order which the vice president and other members of the Colombian national Government assume the powers and duties of the Colombian presidency (or the office itself, in the instance of succession by the vice president) upon an elected president's death in office, resignation, removal from office upon impeachment conviction or incapacity.
[37] [38] Colombia under President Santos showed some progress in the struggle to defend human rights, as expressed by HRW. [39] A Special Jurisdiction of Peace was created to investigate, clarify, prosecute and punish serious human rights violations and grave breaches of international humanitarian law which occurred during the armed conflict ...