Alvear (surname)
Alvear is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Cecilia Alvear, Ecuadorian-born American television journalist *Soledad Alvear María Soledad Alvear Valenzuela (born September 17, 1950), is a Chilean lawyer and Christian Democrat politician, who was a cabinet member of the Aylwin, Frei and Lagos administrations. She was president of the Christian Democrat Party (PDC) fro ... (born 1950), Chilean lawyer and politician * Yuri Alvear (born 1986), Colombian judoka See also * de Alvear {{surname, Alvear Spanish-language surnames ...
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Cecilia Alvear
Cecilia Alvear (November 5, 1939, – April 21, 2017) was an Ecuadorian-born American journalist in television news and the former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, was a Field Producer with NBC Network News in Burbank, California. Early career She was the network's Mexico City Bureau Chief from 1982 until 1984, the first Latina to serve in that position, when she was transferred to Miami to serve as the Senior Producer for Latin America. In 1989 she was assigned to the West Coast. As a producer Alvear covered many major news stories; among them, the wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s, the Mexico City earthquake in 1985, protests and elections in Chile and Peru, the War on Drugs in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia, the Mengele investigation in Brazil, unrest in Panama, two interviews with Fidel Castro in Cuba, the Pan American Games in Havana, the Barcelona Olympics, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation rebellion in Chiapas, the Colosio ...
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Soledad Alvear
María Soledad Alvear Valenzuela (born September 17, 1950), is a Chilean lawyer and Christian Democrat politician, who was a cabinet member of the Aylwin, Frei and Lagos administrations. She was president of the Christian Democrat Party (PDC) from 2006–2008. She is currently senator for Santiago/East. Under President Patricio Aylwin, Alvear worked as Minister of Women's Affairs, a new Ministry created to deal with discrimination against women in Chilean society. Under the Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle administration she assumed as Justice Minister and helped in completely overhauling the Criminal Justice Code, which dated from Spanish Colonial times. With Ricardo Lagos she worked as campaign manager during the 2000 runoff election, and then under his government she worked as Foreign Minister, signing Free Trade Agreement with the United States, the European Community and South Korea. On late 2004 Alvear won her party's nomination for the upcoming presidential election, and then was t ...
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Yuri Alvear
Yuri Alvear Orejuela (born 29 March 1986) is a Colombian judoka, three times World Champion in her division. Early life Yuri was born in Jamundí which is a suburb of Cali, the third largest city in Colombia. Her father Arnuy is a builder and mother Miryam is a housewife. She also has a brother, Harvy. From youth, she was very talented in all kind of sports, she participated in water polo, volleyball, handball, athletics. When she was 14 Ruperto Guaúña, a judo trainer of Litecom school, was looking for girls for his judo team. That's how Yuri became a judoka. Yuri began judo late, but she already was already in good physical condition from previous sport so she just needed to learn technical aspects of judo. She is a very good friend with other top Colombian judoka Anny Cortez. She is also her sparring partner. Judo career Alvear won a bronze medal in the under 57 kg division of the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games. In 2008, she participated in the Olym ...
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De Alvear
de Alvear is a surname. Notable people with the surname include *Carlos María de Alvear (1789-1852) *Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear (1868–1942), Argentine lawyer and politician *Torcuato de Alvear (1822-1890) 19th-century Argentine conservative politician *Maria de Alvear (born 1960), Spanish-German composer living in Germany *Diego de Alvear y Ponce de León Diego de Alvear y Ponce de León (1749–1830) was a Spanish military commander and politician. A grandson of the founder of the "Alvear" wine company of Montilla, he was the father of the Argentine politician Carlos María de Alvear, grandfather ...