Topic: Alvaro Uribe
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Members of FARC (the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) violate the human rights of those they capture ... deal in drugs and when we capture one of them go out and say those (from FARC) that are captured are having their right violated
Colombia's Uribe slams rebels over rights Jan 07, 2005
We have this problem ... I trust that Venezuelan President (Hugo) Chavez will help up overcome it
Colombia to Chavez: Help keep border safe Sep 24, 2004
Although many citizens are conscious of the need for these agreements to build robust economies and social justice ... some are raising incendiary claims against the negotiations, and to their discredit, are aspiring to obtain electoral benefits
Colombian president defends trade talks May 19, 2004
The entire nation and the families of the children killed are bearing a tremendous pain
Colombia mourns 21 dead children Apr 30, 2004
I understand the concern raised by offering alternative sentences for grave crimes. But in a context of 30,000 terrorists, it must be understood that a definitive peace is the best justice for a nation in which several generations have never lived a single day without the occurrence of a terrorist act
Colombian president defends amnesty plan Oct 01, 2003
Álvaro Uribe Vélez (Spanish pronunciation: ; born 4 July 1952) was the 58th President of Colombia, from 2002 to 2010. In August 2010 he was appointed Vice-chairman of the UN panel investigating the Gaza flotilla raid.
Uribe started his political career in his home department of Antioquia. He has held office in the Empresas Públicas de Medellín and in the Ministry of Labor and in the Civil Aeronautic. Later he held office as the mayor of Medellín in 1982, then he was Senator between 1986 and 1994 and finally Governor of Antioquia between 1995 and 1997 before he was elected President of Colombia in 2002.
Before his current role in politics Uribe was a lawyer. He studied law at the University of Antioquia and completed a post-graduate management program at Harvard Extension School. He was awarded the Simón Bolívar Scholarship of the British Council and was nominated Senior Associate Member at St Antony's College in the University of Oxford after completing his term in office as the governor of Antioquia in 1998.
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