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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.
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 ...
In February 2007 Petro began a public verbal dispute with President Uribe when Petro suggested that the president should have recused himself from negotiating the demobilization process of paramilitaries in Colombia; this followed accusations that Uribe's brother, Santiago Uribe, was a former member of the Twelve Apostles paramilitary group in ...
In 2015, Colombia's Congress limited presidency to single term, preventing the president from seeking re-election. [2] In Colombia, reelections are not allowed, but they are given the four full years. In those four years, the president is head of the state and head of the government.
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 largest criminal group said Tuesday it has accepted President Gustavo Petro's offer to start peace negotiations, but the next steps in any talks were not immediately clear. The ...
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 ...