Juan Manuel Corzo Román (born 3 October 1961) is a Colombian lawyer and politician, currently serving as

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since 2002. A Conservative party politician, he was first elected to

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as Representative for the Department of North Santander in 1998. He ran and was elected

in 2002, continuing to be re-elected in 2006 and 2010; he forms part of the First Commission of the Senate. On 12 April 1999 Corzo was kidnapped along with the 39 other passengers of an

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flight between

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and

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by a

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of the National Liberation Army (ELN), a leftist terrorist guerrilla group, and was held captive for 17 months until his release in September 2000.

Personal life

Juan Manuel was born on 3 October 1961 in

to Luis Corzo Ramírez, a lawyer and

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, and his wife Lucila Román. He is married to Isabel Carmenza Sanmiguel Maldonado, a former Miss North Santander, and together have two children: Silvia and Luis Javier.

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