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The office of president was established upon the ratification of the Constitution of 1819, by the Congress of Angostura, convened in December 1819, when Colombia was the "Gran Colombia". The first president, General Simón Bolívar, [2] took office in 1819. His position, initially self-proclaimed, was subsequently ratified by Congress.
Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego [c] ODB ODSC ODIC (Latin American Spanish: [ɡusˈtaβo fɾanˈsisko ˈpetɾo uˈreɣo]; born 19 April 1960) is a Colombian politician who is the 34th and current president of Colombia since 2022. Upon inauguration, he became the first left-wing president in the recent history of Colombia. [1] [2]
Rafael Núñez Moledo, the first president, was actually inaugurated in 1884 as the 14th and last president of the United States of Colombia for a two-year constitutional term; in this capacity he was appointed by the National Constituent Assembly of 1885 to serve a new six-year term while the assembly drafted, passed, signed, and implemented a ...
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, a former leftist guerrilla who campaigned as a moderate, has not yet completed his first month in office. But his first steps on the foreign-policy and human ...
President Biden and President Petro of Colombia at the White House. On 20 April 2023, he met with the president of the United States, Joe Biden , at the White House , [ 70 ] where topics such as decarbonization, the construction of a green economy in America, and electrical transmission at the continental level were discussed. payment of ...
Colombia’s president said the country would impose its own 25 percent tariff on goods coming from the U.S. Later on Sunday, the White House confirmed the two sides came to an agreement as ...
Iván Duque is the author of the books Monetary Sins (2007), Machiavelli in Colombia (2010), [51] Orange Effect (2015), IndignAcción (IndignAction) (2017), The Future is at the Center (2018) Archaeology of My Father (2018), Humanism Matters (2019), The Road to Zero (2021) and is co-author of the book The Orange Economy: An Infinite Opportunity ...
Iván Duque's term as the 33rd president of Colombia began with his inauguration on August 7, 2018, and ended on August 7, 2022. Duque a right-wing leader from Bogotá, D.C., took office after a narrow victory over the incumbent leader of Human Colombia Gustavo Petro in the 2018 presidential election.