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Jahel Quiroga
Jahel Quiroga Carrillo is a Colombian industrial engineer, human rights activist, and politician of the Patriotic Union (Colombia), Patriotic Union party (UP). She is a survivor of an extermination effort against members of the organization in the 1980s. She has been a member of the Senate of Colombia since July 2022. Biography Jahel Quiroga was born in Chaparral, Tolima. She studied industrial engineering at Francisco José de Caldas District University in Bogotá. She was elected councilor of Barrancabermeja in 1988. Jorge Orlando Higuita Rojas, her benchmate on the council, was assassinated in 1989. In 1992, she was again elected to the Barrancabermeja council, but could not finish her term due to threats against her life. She went into exile in the United States for a year. In 1993, Quiroga founded the non-governmental organization Reiniciar together with Aída Avella and other surviving members of the Patriotic Union (Colombia), UP, with the purpose of assisting victims of ...
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Chaparral, Tolima
Chaparral is a town and municipality in the Tolima department of Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car .... Population The population of the municipality was 40,880 as of the 1993 census. The 2017 census had a total population of 47,293 References Municipalities of Tolima Department {{Tolima-geo-stub ...
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Closed List
Closed list describes the variant of party-list systems where voters can effectively only vote for political parties as a whole; thus they have no influence on the party-supplied order in which party candidates are elected. If voters had some influence, that would be called an open list. Closed list systems are still commonly used in party-list proportional representation, and most mixed electoral systems also use closed lists in their party list component. Many countries, however have changed their electoral systems to use open lists to incorporate personalised representation to their proportional systems. In closed list systems, each political party has pre-decided who will receive the seats allocated to that party in the elections, so that the candidates positioned highest on this list tend to always get a seat in the parliament while the candidates positioned very low on the closed list will not. However, the candidates "at the water mark" of a given party are in the position ...
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People From Chaparral, Tolima
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Patriotic Union (Colombia) Politicians
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Members Of The Senate Of Colombia
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Colombian Women Engineers
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Colombian Women Activists
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Colombian Industrial Engineers
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Colombian Human Rights Activists
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21st-century Colombian Women Politicians
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21st-century Colombian Politicians
The 1st century was the century spanning AD 1 ( I) through AD 100 ( C) according to the Julian calendar. It is often written as the or to distinguish it from the 1st century BC (or BCE) which preceded it. The 1st century is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period. The 1st century also saw the appearance of Christianity. During this period, Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius (AD 43). The reforms introduced by Augustus during his long reign stabilized the empire after the turmoil of the previous century's civil wars. Later in the century the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which had been founded by Augustus, came to an end with the suicide of Nero in AD 68. There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and instability, which was finally brought to an end by Vespasian, ninth Roman emperor, a ...
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