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Article: Álvaro Uribe Vélez

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Álvaro Uribe Vélez 1952-, Colombian politician. A lawyer, he held a number of government posts before becoming mayor of Medellín in 1982; he was later a Colombian senator (1986-94) and governor of Antioquia dept. (1995-97). In 2002 Uribe, who had been a member of the Liberal party, ran as an independent candidate for the presidency, campaigning on a right-wing platform that called for taking a hard-line against the leftist rebels and fighting corruption. Surviving an ...

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