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Encyclopedia > Alfonso Lopez Michelsen

Alfonso López Michelsen (b. June 30, Colombian politician. He was president of Colombia from 1974 to 1978.




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Alfonso (Spanish and Italian), Alfons (German or Catalan), Afonso (Portuguese), Affonso (Portuguese), Alphonse (French) and (Italian), Alphons (Dutch), Alphonso (English), or Alphonzo (English) is a masculine name, originally from the Gothic language, in which it was Hildefuns, which is preserved in the Spanish Ildefonso (Latinised as Ildephonsus).
Alfonso VII of Castile -- (1126-1157) the Emperor
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COLOMBIAWAR.ORG - War on Drugs and Human Rights in Colombia (1344 words)
Lopez also criticized the National Front's economic policy, attacked it as a mechanism incapable of developing Colombia economically and socially, and criticized the government for trying to apply "northamerican" capitalism to an under-developed country such as Colombia.
Lopez indicated that he had expected Colonel Alvaro VALENCIA Tovar, the Army's brightest officer, to oppose a coup, but he had heard recently that Valencia Tovar would throw in his lot with the golpistas and would be given an important ministry in return.
Also, Lopez, while always professing irritation with communist inroads into and demands upon the MRL, was loathe in the final analysis to expel or subordinate individual MRL pro-communist or Communist Party members since many were very friendly to him personally and at the same time were also amongst his most effective campaigners.
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