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Virgilio Barco Vargas (17 September 1921 – 20 May 1997) was a Colombian politician and civil engineer who served as the 27th President of Colombia serving from 7 August 1986 to 7 August 1990.
Virgilio Barco Vargas (Cúcuta, 17 de septiembre de 1921 - Bogotá, 20 de mayo de 1997) fue un ingeniero civil, empresario y político colombiano. Fue presidente de Colombia entre el 7 de agosto de 1986 y el 7 de agosto de 1990.
Virgilio Barco Vargas fue presidente de Colombia en el período 1986-90. Durante su presidencia, hubo un fuerte enfrentamiento entre el gobierno y los principales carteles de droga del país.
The presidency of Virgilio Barco Vargas, a former mayor of Bogotá, began in August 1986 with hopes of improving civil order, but instead guerrilla groups became more active than ever, and paramilitary groups caused even more deaths than the leftist insurgents.
Virgilio Barco Vargas (b. 17 September 1921; d. 20 May 1997), president of Colombia (1986–1990). From a prominent Cúcuta family, Barco combined study in the United States (including doctoral work in economics at MIT) with politics in his home city.
Hijo de Jorge Enrique Barco y Julieta Vargas, y nieto del general conservador Virgilio Barco, uno de los pioneros en la exploración y explotación del petróleo colombiano. Este ingeniero y economista liberal asumió la Presidencia de la República entre 1986 y 1990.
Virgilio Barco Vargas (17 September 1921 – 20 May 1997) was a Colombian politician and civil engineer who served as the 27th President of Colombia serving from 7 August 1986 to 7 August 1990.
Sep 10, 1989 · PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO VARGAS, who has vowed to crush the drug lords who have turned his country into a killing ground, seems an unlikely field commander.
May 21, 1997 · Virgilio Barco Vargas was President of Colombia during a particularly violent period of its turbulent history. The Medelln-based drug-trafficking organisation led by Pablo Escobar...
May 27, 1986 · In the final stages of Virgilio Barco Vargas's successful bid for the Colombian presidency, local wits had it that the candidate was at last relaxing: When he ended speeches with three...
