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Mario Uribe Escobar
Mario de Jesús Uribe Escobar (born 1949) is a Colombian politician and lawyer. Uribe-Escobar graduated in Law from the Autonomous University of Medellín and the University of Antioquia. Political career He began his political career as councilman of his hometown; the municipality of Andes, Department of Antioquia. Between 1982 and 1986 served as deputy of the Department Assembly of Antioquia and then to the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia in representation of Antioquia, serving from 1986 to 1994, in which he was Vice President of the Chamber between 1990 and 1991 and worked as member and president of the Investigations and Accusations Commission. In 1994 Uribe-Escobar was elected to the Senate of Colombia and served until October 2007. Uribe-Escoba ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senator Of Colombia
The Senate of the Republic of Colombia () is the upper house of the Congress of Colombia, with the lower house being the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, Chamber of Representatives. The Senate has 108 members elected for concurrent (non-rotating) four-year terms. Electoral system According to the Colombian Constitution of 1991, Colombian Constitution (1991), 100 senators (''senadores'') are elected from a single national constituency, and another two are elected in a special national constituency for Indigenous peoples in Colombia, Indigenous communities. Following the Colombian peace process, peace process (2012–2016), the FARC (party: Commons (Colombian political party), Comunes) gets another five seats and the presidential opposition gets one more, for a total of 108. Colombian citizens living outside the country are eligible to vote, although, unlike in the lower house, they have no special representatives in the Senate. For elections to the Senate in the nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colombian Parapolitics Scandal
The Colombian parapolitics scandal (known as parapolítica in Spanish, a portmonteau of '' paramilitar'' and '' política'') refers to the Colombian congressional scandal in which several congressmen and other politicians have been indicted for colluding with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a paramilitary group which is responsible for killing thousands of Colombian civilians. The scandal broke in 2006 and by April 17, 2012, 139 members of Congress were under investigation. Five governors and 32 lawmakers, including Mario Uribe Escobar, cousin of President Álvaro Uribe and former President of Congress, were convicted. Background Relations between politicians and government officials, security forces, high profile members of other sectors of society, and paramilitary groups have developed for years, resulting in the latter's infiltration of Colombian politics and government. According to the newspaper '' El Tiempo,'' one of the paramilitary leaders in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Colombian Legislative Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Colombia on 10 March 2002 to elect the Senate and Chamber of Representatives.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p306 The Liberal Party remained the largest party but lost its majority in both houses, winning won 56 of the 166 seats in the Chamber and 29 of the 102 seats in the Senate. Results Senate Chamber of Representatives References {{Colombian elections Parliamentary elections in Colombia Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ... 2002 in Colombia Election and referendum articles with incomplete results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleonora Pineda
Eleanora or Eleonora may refer to: People * Eleanora (name) * Eleonora, three 17th century Swedish queens consort * Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken (1626–1692), Swedish princess * Eleonora Luisa Gonzaga (1686–1741), Duchess of Rovere and Montefeltro as the wife of Francesco Maria de' Medici * Eleonora, Princess of Ligne (born 1953), wife of Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne * Eleanora Atherton (1782–1870), English philanthropist * Eleonora Chiavarelli (1915–2010), wife of murdered Italian politician Aldo Moro * Eleonora Duse (1858–1924), Italian actress, often known simply as Duse * Eleonora Dziękiewicz (born 1978), Polish volleyball player * Eleonora Ehrenbergová (1832–1912), Czech operatic soprano * Eleanora Fagan (1915–1959), birth name of American jazz singer Billie Holiday * Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (1688–1741), Queen of Sweden Other uses * "Eleonora" (short story), by Edgar Allan Poe * Eleanora, principal woman's role in Strindberg's 190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvatore Mancuso
Salvatore Mancuso Gómez, also known as "el Mono Mancuso", "Santander Lozada" or "Triple Cero" (i.e. "Triple Zero", or, "000"), among other names (born August 17, 1964 in Montería, Córdoba Department, Córdoba) is a Colombian people, Colombian paramilitary leader, once second in command of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitary group. The paramilitary groups commanded by Mancuso fought the guerrillas (mainly Popular Liberation Army, EPL, FARC and ELN Colombia, ELN), and financed their activities by receiving donations from land owners, drug trafficking, extortions and robbery. The AUC committed numerous atrocities and massacres against presumed guerrilla members and the civilian population. Mancuso was initially jailed in a Maximum Security Prison in Itagüí, Antioquia Department, Antioquia after a peace process that led to his demobilization and then transferred to a prison in the city of Cúcuta to help establish the whereabouts of some of the victims ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Córdoba
Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, for example: **Departments of Colombia, a grouping of municipalities **Departments of France, administrative divisions three levels below the national government **Departments of Honduras **Departments of Peru, name given to the subdivisions of Peru until 2002 **Departments of Uruguay *Department (United States Army), corps areas of the U.S. Army prior to World War I *Fire department, a public or private organization that provides emergency firefighting and rescue services *Ministry (government department), a specialized division of a government *Police department, a body empowered by the state to enforce the law *Ship's company#Command structure, Department (naval) administrative/functional sub-unit of a ship's company. Other uses *Depart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciénaga De Oro
Ciénaga de Oro () meaning "Golden Marsh", is a town and municipality located in the Córdoba Department, northern Colombia. According to 2020 estimates, the population of Ciénaga de Oro was 60,521, with a population density of 94 persons per square kilometer. Ciénaga de Oro is the birthplace of Colombian president Gustavo Petro Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego (; born 19 April 1960) is a Colombian politician who is the 34th and current president of Colombia since 2022. Upon inauguration, he became the Pink tide, first left-wing president in the History of Colombia, recen .... Climate References Cordoba {{DEFAULTSORT:Cienaga De Oro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahagún, Córdoba
Sahagún () is a town and municipality located in the Córdoba Department, northern Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel .... As of 2020, the town population was estimated at 110,233. Climate References Gobernacion de Cordoba - SahagúnSahagún official website Municipalities of Córdoba Department {{Córdoba-Colombia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Sucre
Sucre () is a department in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. The department ranks 27th by area, and it has a population of 904,863, ranking 20th of all the 32 departments of Colombia. Sucre is bordered by the Caribbean on the northwest; by Bolívar Department on the east and by Córdoba Department on the west. Sucre was named in honor of the Independence hero Antonio José de Sucre who was quoted by the founders of this department in reference to Simón Bolívar's death as saying "They have killed my heart", expression said while cruising the territory of the present day Sucre Department. As of 2009, the Sucre Department has an estimated population of 802,733, of which 234,886 are in the department capital Sincelejo, according to the DANE projections. History Pre-Columbian Before the Spanish Conquest, the land comprising the department of Sucre was mainly inhabited by two groups of indigenous people — the Zenú and the Turbacos. The Zenú language was perhaps part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucasia, Antioquia
Caucasia is a small city and Municipalities of Colombia, municipality located in the subregion of Bajo Cauca Antioquia department, in Colombia. Bounded on the south by the department of Córdoba Department, Córdoba, in the east by the municipalities of Antioquia in Nechí and El Bagre, on the north by the municipality of Zaragoza, and west to the town of Cáceres, Antioquia, Cáceres, and is located 270 km from Medellín. In sports they have the "Bajo Cauca F.C." that is playing in the Colombian Football Federation's Second Division. General * Date Established: April 12, 1886 * Founding Date: 1945 * Founder: Clemente Viloria Arrieta * Nickname: Capital of Bajo Cauca, Pantry Antioquia Livestock and Mining. Geography The municipality of Caucasia is located at the northern department of Antioquia, on the border with the department of Córdoba and the subregion of Bajo Cauca Antioquia. It lies at an altitude of 150 m (490 ft) above sea level. Its territory is a flat area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, second-largest country by total area, with the List of countries by length of coastline, world's longest coastline. Its Canada–United States border, border with the United States is the world's longest international land border. The country is characterized by a wide range of both Temperature in Canada, meteorologic and Geography of Canada, geological regions. With Population of Canada, a population of over 41million people, it has widely varying population densities, with the majority residing in List of the largest population centres in Canada, urban areas and large areas of the country being sparsely populated. Canada's capital is Ottawa and List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro García Romero
Álvaro Alfonso García Romero (Ovejas, February 19, 1951) is a Colombian politician who was a member of the Colombia Democratic Party, and was elected by popular vote to join the Senate and the House of Representatives of Colombia. He was captured on November 18, 2007 within the scandal known as parapolitics, and sentenced in 2010 to 40 years in prison for diverting public funds to form far-right paramilitary groups and for being the indirect author, according to sentence with file 32805 of February 23, 2010 of the Supreme Court, of the Massacre of 15 people in Macayepo. Biography Álvaro García was born in Ovejas, Sucre, and grew up on his family's cattle and agriculture farms. His family is originally from Carmen de Bolívar. Macayepo massacre On May 18, 2002, in a debate in Congress on paramilitary politics, Senator Gustavo Petro showed documentary and audio evidence that indicated García Romero had ties to paramilitary groups in Sucre and was involved in the Macay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
