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Sergio Fajardo
Sergio Fajardo Valderrama (; born 19 June 1956) is a Colombian politician and mathematician. He first entered politics in 2003 when he was elected Mayor of Medellin, Medellín, the List of cities in Colombia, second-largest city in Colombia and the capital of Antioquia. He was the mayor of Medellín from 2003 to 2007 and was recognized for transforming the city from a violent and impoverished place to a model of social and urban development. Fajardo was the vice presidential nominee of Antanas Mockus in 2010, finishing in second place after losing the runoff against Juan Manuel Santos and Angelino Garzon. Fajardo served as the governor of Antioquia Department, Antioquia from 2012 to 2016. Fajardo brands himself as a pragmatic politician with no particular ideology, with political analysts and media outlets in Colombia labelling him as a centrist politician not tied to the traditional parties in Colombia. In July 2017, Fajardo announced his campaign to run for president in the up ...
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Mayor Of Medellín
This is a list of mayors of Medellín, Colombia. Ordinary mayors of Villa de la Candelaria Until 1863, the administrator of Medellin was known as the Ordinary Mayor of Villa de la Candelaria de Medellín. * José Zapata y Múnera * Tomás Ibarra Gil * Carlos de Molina y Toledo * José Álvarez del Pino * Lorenzo Zapata Gómez de Múnera * Juan Bautista de Mesa * Francisco de Saldarriaga Irigoyen, Francisco de Saldarriaga * José Zapata y Múnera * Juan de Londoño and Trasmiera * Peter of Acevedo * Francisco Castaño Ponce * Carlos de Cevallos * Diego Molina and Beltrán * Francisco Clemente de Mesa * Pedro de Celada Hidalgo * Antonio Velásquez de Obando * Juan Gómez de Salazar * Alfonso Cristóbal de Toro * Diego de Castrillon Bernaldo de Quirós * Clemente de Molina and Toledo * Lorenzo Zapata and Gómez * Juan Esteban Jaramillo * Juan Vélez de Rivera * Antonio de la Serna * Diego de Molina and Toledo * Sebastian Pérez Moreno * Clemente de Molina and Toledo * Juan de Montoy ...
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Antioquia Department
Antioquia () is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the central northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea. Most of its territory is mountainous with some valleys, much of which is part of the Andes mountain range. Antioquia has been part of many territorial divisions of former countries created within the present-day territory of Colombia. Before the adoption of the Colombian Constitution of 1886, Antioquia State had a sovereign government. The department covers an area of , and has a population of 6,994,792 (2023). Antioquia borders the Córdoba Department and the Caribbean Sea to the north; Chocó Department, Chocó to the west; the departments of Bolívar Department, Bolívar, Santander Department, Santander, and Boyacá Department, Boyaca to the east; and the departments of Caldas Department, Caldas and Risaralda Department, Risaralda to the south. Medellín is Antioquia's capital and the second-largest city in the c ...
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Angelino Garzon
Angelino may refer to: People * Angelino Alfano (born 1970), Italian politician * Angelino Apelar (1927–2006), Evangelical Christian leader * Angelino Dulcert, Italian-Majorcan cartographer * Angelino Fons (1936–2011), Spanish film director and screenwriter * Angelino Garzón, former Vice President of Colombia * Angelino Medoro (1567–1631), Italian painter, active in Latin America * Angelino Rosa, Italian professional football player * Angelino Soler (born 1939), Spanish road bicycle racer * José Angelino Caamal (born 1961), Mexican politician * Angeliño (born 1997), full name José Ángel Esmorís Tasende, Spanish footballer Other * Angelino Heights, Los Angeles, California * El Clásico Angelino EL, El or el may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional entities * El, a character from the manga series ''Shugo Chara!'' by Peach-Pit * Eleven (''Stranger Things'') (El), a fictional character in the TV series ''Stranger Things'' * El, fami ...
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Third Way
The Third Way is a predominantly centrist political position that attempts to reconcile centre-right and centre-left politics by advocating a varying synthesis of Right-wing economics, right-wing economic and Left-wing politics, left-wing social policies. The Third Way is a reconceptualization of social democracy. It supports workfare instead of welfare spending, welfare, work training programs, educational opportunities, and other government programs that give citizens a 'hand-up' instead of a 'hand-out'. The Third Way seeks a compromise between a less interventionist economic system as supported by Neoliberalism, neoliberals and Keynesian economics, Keynesian Social democracy, social democratic spending policy supported by social democrats and progressivism, progressives. The Third Way was born from a reevaluation of political policies within various centre to centre-left progressive movements in the 1980s in response to doubt regarding the economic viability of the state ...
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Inter-American Dialogue
The Inter-American Dialogue (Spanish and Portuguese: ''Diálogo Interamericano''), also known as the Dialogue or IAD, is a U.S.-based think tank in the field of international affairs primarily related to the Western Hemisphere. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., it intends to "foster democratic governance, prosperity, and social equity in Latin America and the Caribbean". The Dialogue's research areas focus on the rule of law, education, migration, remittances, energy, climate change and extractive industries. History The Dialogue originated from the efforts of Abraham F. Lowenthal, who in the late 1970s and early 1980s was the secretary of the Latin America program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Together with Peter D. Bell, who at that time was engaged in The Latin America program at the Ford Foundation, he approached Sol M. Linowitz, former US Ambassador to the Organization of American States, with an idea to assemble citizens from throughout the ...
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LatinNews
LatinNews (Latin American Newsletters) provides news services relating to Latin America Latin America is the cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese. Latin America is defined according to cultural identity, not geogr .... Its major publications include the ''Latin American Weekly Report'' (weekly), ''Latin American Economy and Business'' (monthly) and ''Latinnews Daily'' (daily).LatinNewsAbout us References News agencies based in the United Kingdom Publishing companies established in 1967 Companies based in the London Borough of Camden 1967 establishments in England {{England-company-stub ...
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University Of The Andes (Colombia)
The University of the Andes (), also commonly self-styled as Uniandes, is a private research university located in the city centre of Bogotá, Colombia. Founded in 1948 by a group of Colombian intellectuals led by Mario Laserna Pinzón, it was the first Colombian university established as nonsectarian (independent from any political party or religious institution). The university is academically composed of nine schools, three special academic entities—the Alberto Lleras Camargo School of Government, the Center for Research and Training in Education (, CIFE), and the Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies (, CIDER)—and a joint academic venture with the medical institution Santa Fe de Bogotá Foundation, offering 31 undergraduate, 18 doctoral, and 38 graduate degree-granting programs in areas of human knowledge such as medicine, engineering, science, law and others. As of 2011, the university had produced 128 research groups recognized by Colciencias, most of t ...
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