Andrés Pastrana Arango

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Order:	42nd president
Term of Office:	August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. There are 94 days in North Hemisphere summer, South Hemisphere winter. The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through the summer on August 7. Events 1600-1899 1679... August 7, 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy. January 28 Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo Cars for $6.45 billion. Gunmen hold at least 400 children... 1998- August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. There are 94 days in North Hemisphere summer, South Hemisphere winter. The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through the summer on August 7. Events 1600-1899 1679... August 7, 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated: reporter Daniel Pearl March 31 - Ukraine: elections for the Parliament April April 2 - Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where Palestinian terrorists are holding around 200 hostages. A siege ensues. April... 2002
Predecessor:	Categories: Stub | Presidents of Colombia | 1950 births ... Ernesto Samper Pizano
Successor:	lvaro Uribe V lez (born July 4, 1952) is the President of Colombia (since 2002). Running as an independent liberal candidate (having previously been a member of the Colombian Liberal Party), he was elected President of Colombia in the first round of the 26 May 2002 elections with 53% of... Alvaro Uribe Velez
Date of Birth:	August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 136 days remaining. Events 1807 - Robert Fultons first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the... August 17, 1954 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events January events January 14 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation January 14 - Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio. January 15 - Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in... 1954
Place of Birth:	Downtown Bogotá from Monserrate Bogotá (known officially in Spanish as , formerly as ) is a city of 8.0 million people and the capital of Colombia. At an altitude of 8,660 feet (2640 meters) above sea level in the Cordillera Oriental of the Northern Andes Mountains, Bogotá... Bogotá
First lady:	Nohra Puyana de Pastrana
Profession:	A lawyer or attorney at law is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law (and in other forms of dispute resolution). Most countries today require professional law advisors in their judicial systems. Lawyers have many names in different... Lawyer
A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in elections. Colombia has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody... Political party:	Conservative
Vice president:	Gustavo Bell Lemus

Andrés Pastrana Arango (born August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 136 days remaining. Events 1807 - Robert Fultons first American steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the... August 17, 1954 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events January events January 14 - The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation January 14 - Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio. January 15 - Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in... 1954) was the List of Heads of State (Presidents etc.) of the Republic of Colombia and its precursor states Unless otherwise stated, the incumbent is President The Republic of Greater Colombia Republic of New Granada The Granadine Confederation The United States of Colombia Republic of Colombia See also Politics of Colombia president lists... President of The Republic of Colombia is a country in north-western South America. It is bound to the north and north-west by the Caribbean Sea, to the east by Venezuela and Brazil, to the south by Ecuador and Peru, and to the west by Panama and the Pacific Ocean. Internet... Colombia from 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy. January 28 Ford Motor Company announces the buyout of Volvo Cars for $6.45 billion. Gunmen hold at least 400 children... 1998 to 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated: reporter Daniel Pearl March 31 - Ukraine: elections for the Parliament April April 2 - Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where Palestinian terrorists are holding around 200 hostages. A siege ensues. April... 2002, following in the footsteps of his father, Misael Pastrana Borrero was president of Colombia from 1970 to 1974. Categories: Stub | Presidents of Colombia ... Misael Pastrana Borrero, who was president from 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. Events January-February January 1 - Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 - Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January 15... 1970 to 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). Events January-February January 5 - Dungeons & Dragons officially released. February 4 - Patricia Hearst, the 19 year old granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army February 7 - Grenada becomes independent from... 1974.

During his father's rule, he was a student with a reputation as a sensitive hippy. After obtaining a postgraduate in the The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia — is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii... USA. On his return he founded a magazine called Guión and a television station called Noticiero TV Hoy. As a regular presenter he became a nationally known figure. In 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January-February January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the... 1982 he began his political career, gaining a seat on the local Downtown Bogotá from Monserrate Bogotá (known officially in Spanish as , formerly as ) is a city of 8.0 million people and the capital of Colombia. At an altitude of 8,660 feet (2640 meters) above sea level in the Cordillera Oriental of the Northern Andes Mountains, Bogotá... Bogotá council. He also specialized in press articles on the production and trafficking of Cocaine is a crystalline alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system and an appetite suppressant, creating a euphoric sense of happiness and increased energy. Though most often used recreationally for this effect, cocaine is also a topical... cocaine, for which he gained many journalistic awards. He was kidnapped January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 347 days remaining (348 in leap years) Events 350 - General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans, proclaims himself Emperor. 474 - Leo II becomes briefly Byzantine emperor 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople fail. 1520 - King Christian II... 18 January 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Events Environmental change Zebra mussels found in the Great lakes December 2 - Cyclone in Bangladesh leaves 5 million homeless - thousands dead December 7 - In Armenia an earthquake 6.9 on the Richter scale killed nearly 25.000... 1988 in Antioquia was one of the states in the original United States of Colombia, and is now a department in the northwest part of the Republic of Colombia. The department has an area of 63,612 km² (24,427 sq mi), and an estimated population of 4,500,000 (1990). It... Antioquia by the Medellín is the capital city of Antioquia, a province in Colombia (South America). Geographical location 6° 15 North, 75° 36 West. With a population of 2.1 million (3.2 million in the greater metropolitan area) it is the second largest city of Colombia and the first industrial center... Medellin drug cartel in order to stop the Colombian government allowing A WANTED poster of Escobar Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (January 12, 1949–December 2, 1993) was a Colombian drug lord who was considered by members of the government, news reporters and the general public alike to be one of the most ruthless, ambitious and powerful drug dealers in history... Pablo Escobar to be extradited to the USA. He was found by the police a week later. The same March he was elected mayor of Bogotá, a position he held until 1990. He gained notoriety by strengthening security and reducing crime.

In 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the skull (see Human evolution). April April 6 - Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and president of Burundi Cyprien Ntaryamira die when a missile shoots down their jet near Kigali, Rwanda. This is taken as a... 1994 he stood for the presidency against Categories: Stub | Presidents of Colombia | 1950 births ... Ernesto Samper, losing by only 2 points in the second round. Pastrana immediately accused Samper of using drug money to finance his campaign. While this accusation saw a parliamentary investigation Pastrana retired into his private life. In 1998 he announced his intention to run for President. This time he won.

His presidency is remembered first for his negotiations with the two left-wing guerrilla groups The Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – Peoples Army, or FARC-EP) was established in 1964 as the paramilitary wing of the Colombian Communist Party, and is Colombias oldest, largest, most capable, and best-equipped insurgent force. The... FARC and Ejército de Liberación Nacional (usually abbreviated to ELN), or National Liberation Army, is a revolutionary, Marxist, insurgent guerrilla group that has been operating in several regions of Colombia since 1964. Less known than the FARC, it is estimated to be smaller, having between 3,500 to... ELN, and second for his breaking off said negotiations. It is also remembered for a growing degree of unpopularity in polls as his term progressed and accusations of corruption. Some critics accused him of accepting bribes from leading FARC and ELN members, but no concrete and specific evidence of that was presented during his presidency. His administration proposed and initially oversaw the implementation of the controversial This article needs cleanup. Please edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. Plan Colombia is an ambitious and controversial initiative aimed at resolving the ongoing, forty-year civil war in Colombia. The Plan was conceived in 1999 by the administration of President Andrés Pastrana... Plan Colombia anti-drug strategy.

After President Álvaro Uribe Vélez (born July 4, 1952) is the President of Colombia (since 2002). He is a lawyer from the University of Antioquia, with a specialization in Administration and Management from Harvard University. He is married to Lina Moreno de Uribe and has two sons, Tomá... Álvaro Uribe Vélez took office, financial files of President Pastrana's Goverment were unsealed and millions of dollars of loss and misbudgets were found, including almost 20 million dollars in missing funds that were assumed to be caused by corruption. Despite this, none of the files were able to be tracked back to President Pastrana himself.