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César Augusto Gaviria Trujillo (Spanish: [ˈsesaɾ awˈɣusto ɣaˈβiɾja tɾuˈxiʝo] ; born 31 March 1947) is a Colombian economist and politician who served as the President of Colombia from 1990 to 1994, Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1994 to 2004 and National Director of the Colombian Liberal Party from ...
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César Augusto Gaviria Trujillo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsesaɾ ɣaˈβirja]; born 31 March 1947) is a Colombian economist and politician. He was the 28th President of Colombia from 1990 to 1994 under the Colombian Liberal Party .
César Gaviria then became the party's main candidate; on 27 November Avianca Flight 203 was bombed in an attempt to kill him. Gaviria survived, but 107 people died. [6] On 22 March 1990 Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa, the candidate of the Patriotic Union, was assassinated, resulting in the party pulling out of the elections.
Gaviria Trujillo, César Augusto (1947–) Born in Pereira, Colombia, on 31 March 1947, César Gaviria studied economics at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota. At the age of twenty-three, he began his political career by winning election to the Pereira municipal council in 1970.
Cesar Augusto Gaviria Trujillo (born 1947) entered politics at age 23, serving as a Liberal party representative and in various cabinet positions before being elected president of Colombia from 1990-1994. In 1994 he was elected secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Former Colombian President César Gaviria—known in Latin America as a conflict mediator, advocate of democracy in 1999, staunch supporter of regional integration and defender of human rights—was first elected OAS Secretary General in 1994.
A career politician, César Gaviria served one highly consequential term as president of Colombia from 1990 to 1994. He ushered in a new democratic constitution in 1991, and he waged war against the main drug cartels and leftist guerrillas at a time of extreme violence in the country, during which drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed by police in ...
Jan 5, 2023 · Former presidents Belisario Betancur and Cesar Gaviria both initiated negotiations with multiple insurgent groups, and the latter even negotiated with the Medellín drug cartel, private militias...
May 2, 2023 · Guerrillas, militias and murky criminal organizations are all part of a complex negotiation by the Petro administration to bring about lasting peace. All the news about Cesar Gaviria published...
