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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