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Alfonso Gómez Méndez
Alfonso Gómez Méndez (born 19 August 1949) served as the 9th Minister of Justice and Law of Colombia. Gómez was born on 19 August 1949 in Chaparral, Tolima. He attended Universidad Externado de Colombia where he graduated in Law in 1971. On 9 March 1989, the Senate of Colombia elected Gómez to succeed Horacio Serpa Uribe as Inspector General of Colombia. Gómez, who at the time was serving as Chamber Representative, was nominated by President Virgilio Barco Vargas. On 23 November 1990 Gómez resigned citing political pressure; the Deputy Inspector, the Assistant Inspector, the Secretary General, and 23 Delegate Inspectors, all presented their resignation in solidarity with the Inspector General. The backlash from the Senate and others in military and right-wing political circles against Gómez and his department, stemmed from the ruling of the Office of the Inspector General against Army General Jesús Armando Arias Cabrales and Army Colonel Edilberto Sánchez Rubiano f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Justice And Law (Colombia)
The Ministry of Justice and Law (), is the ministries of Colombia, national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia responsible for the administration of law and justice, equivalent to the Justice ministry, justice ministries of other countries. In 2011, President of Colombia, President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, as part of a wider justice reform and reshuffle of executive ministries, separated the Ministry of the Interior and Justice (Colombia), Ministry of the Interior and Justice into two Ministry (government department), ministries as had been the case before their merger in 2002 as part of then-President Álvaro Uribe Vélez's ministerial reform. The Ministry of Justice and Law is a central-level entity, head of the Justice and Law Sector, which leads the development of public policy with regards to justice and the protection of rights, within the framework of a Legal Social and Democratic State. The Justice and Law sector, which leads, is made up of the followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |