Forum for the Progress and Integration of South America
The Forum for the Progress and Integration of South America is an initiative by Sebastián Piñera and Iván Duque, for the creation of an integration body to replace the Union of South American Nations.
Image: Retrato Oficial Presidente Piñera 2018 (cropped 7)
Image: Iván Duque, presidente de Colombia
Image: 24 11 2021 Encontro com o Presidente da República do Paraguai, Mario Abdo Benítez (51703646860) (cropped)
Image: Santiago Peña (52902504787)
Iván Duque Márquez is a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the president of Colombia from 2018 to 2022. He was elected as the candidate from the Democratic Centre Party in the 2018 Colombian presidential election. Backed by his mentor, former president and powerful senator Álvaro Uribe, he was elected despite having been relatively unknown a year before the election. He ran on a platform that included opposing Juan Manuel Santos' peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla group. After Duque's term came to an end, he was succeeded by Gustavo Petro on 7 August 2022, after Petro won the runoff round in the 2022 Colombian presidential election.
Duque in 2020
Duque (left) shakes hands with Argentinian President Mauricio Macri in August 2018
Duque and his wife María Juliana Ruiz Sandoval with U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump in 2019
Duque with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, 8 November 2021