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The National Registry of the Civil Status (Spanish: Registraduría Nacional del Estado Civil) is the government agency of Colombia charged with collecting and storing the vital statistics and identifying information of all citizens, counts votes of campaigns for the Senate, presidency and the vice presidency, and to regulate the distribution and organization of identity documentation for each ...
The Confederation of Workers of Colombia (Spanish: Confederación de Trabajadores de Colombia, CTC) is a trade union centre in Colombia. It was formed in 1936, [1] and is affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation. [2] In 1976 José Raquel Mercado, a former president of CTC, was assassinated by the M-19 movement.
Until around 1990 Colombian trade unions were among the strongest in Latin America. [15] However the 1980s expansion of paramilitarism in Colombia saw trade union leaders and members increasingly targeted for assassination, and as a result Colombia has been the most dangerous country in the world for trade unionists for several decades.
The Historic Pact for Colombia (Spanish: Pacto Histórico por Colombia, PHxC) is a political and electoral coalition in Colombia composed of political parties and social movements with ideologies ranging from the centre-left, [8] [9] left-wing, [10] and far-left. [11] It is the current Government Coalition in Colombia after the 2022 ...
The Central Union of Workers (CUT; Spanish: Central Unitaria de Trabajadores) is a Leftist trade union center in Colombia. It was formed in 1986, and is the country's largest union federation, with 546,000 members. [1] ICTUR reports that nearly 800 members of CUT were murdered between 1987 and 1992. [2]
The Union Party for the People (Spanish: Partido de la Unión por la Gente), or Party of the U (Spanish: Partido de la U), is a liberal political party in Colombia. The Party is led by former president Juan Manuel Santos .
The United Provinces of New Granada was a country in South America from 1810 to 1816, a period known in Colombian history as la Patria Boba ("the Foolish Fatherland"). It was formed from areas of the New Kingdom of Granada, roughly corresponding to the territory of modern-day Colombia.
The Patriotic Union or UP (in Spanish: Unión Patriótica) is a leftist, Colombian political party, founded by the FARC and the Colombian Communist Party in 1985, [1] as part of the peace negotiations that the guerrillas held with the Conservative Belisario Betancur administration.