Vera Grabe Loewenherz is a Colombian

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, politician, and former member of the Colombian guerrilla M-19, of which she was also a co-founder. She successfully rejoined society through a peace accord that permitted rebels to disarm and suffer no retaliation from the Government. Under the banner of the

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, a political party spin-off of the former armed group, she was elected to

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, first as Representative of the Chamber, and then as

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. In the Colombian presidential election of 2002 she ran as vice presidential candidate for

Luis Eduardo Garzón Luis Eduardo Garzón (nicknamed "Lucho") (born February 11, 1951 in Bogotá) is the former Mayor of Bogotá (2004–2007), a left-wing Colombian political activist and a former union leader. He is a former member of the Alternative Democratic Po ...

in the

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ticket. She has worked as a diplomatic attachée on

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with the Embassy of Colombia in Spain, Director of the

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''Observatorio para la Paz'' (1998–1999), professor and editor, and peace advocate.

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