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  1. A conversation with Colombian President Álvaro Uribe
    A conversation with Colombian President Álvaro Uribe

    with Álvaro Uribe on Sep 22, 2008

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Álvaro Uribe Vélez is a Colombian politician and lawyer who is currently the 39th President of the Republic of Colombia for the term 2006 – 2010. Uribe finished Law in the University of Antioquia, then he did a course in management at Harvard University. After he finished his period as governor of Antioquia in 1998, he won the Simón Bolívar Scholarship of the British Council and was nominated Senior Associate Member at the Saint Antony’s College in the University of Oxford. As a politician he has been in the Medellín Public Enterprises (Empresas Públicas de Medellín), in the Ministry of Labor and in the Civil Aeronautic. He was also mayor of Medellín in 1982, Senator (1986 – 1994) and later Governor of Antioquia State (1995 – 1997). He was elected President of Colombia in 2002.

As President, he led a program of government he called the “Policy of Democratic Security”. During his presidency, the paramilitary groups agreed to follow a peace process and gave up their guns, the Communist guerrillas reduced their space of action in Colombia and he spearheaded several Free Trade Agreements with different countries. Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvaro_Uribe_Velez