Ernesto Samper
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Ernesto Samper Pizano is a Colombian politician who served as the President of Colombia from 1994 to 1998. From 2014 to 2017 he served as the Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations.
Samper in 2023
Samper naming Olga Duque de Ospina as education minister in 1994
Samper meeting with Venezuelan president Rafael Caldera in 1994
César Gaviria
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César Augusto Gaviria Trujillo 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
Ernesto Samper
…then a member of the Senate of Colombia. Samper unsuccessfully ran for the Liberal Party's nomination for president in 1990. Like the eventual winner, César Gaviria, Samper was from the reformist wing of the party. In 1989, Samper was wounded by 11 bullets during the assassination of Patriotic Union leader José…
Gaviria in 2009
Gaviria with Klaus Schwab at the World Economic Forum's 1992 annual meeting
L-R: Gaviria, Julián De La Chica, and Horacio Serpa, 14 October 2003