Virgilio Barco Vargas

Virgilio Barco Vargas ( born September 17, 1921 in Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, † 20 May 1997 Bogotá ) was a politician and President of the Republic of Colombia By 1986 until 1990.

Life

Virgilio Barco Vargas was in Cucuta / Norte de Santander, the son of wealthy parents ( Jorge Enrique Barco and Julieta Vargas ) and grandson of two major generals - born ( Virgilio Barco Martinez pioneer of the oil industry in Colombia ). He studied economics at the Universidad Nacional in Bogotá, where he graduated in 1943, and then at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. He was then Minister of Post, public services, agriculture, finance. In the years 1966 to 1969 he was mayor of Bogotá, Ambassador in London and in the United States (1977 ) and director of the World Bank.

In the presidential elections on 25 May 1986, he won as a candidate of the Liberal Party of Colombia in the second ballot an absolute majority. On August 7, 1986, he took office from his predecessor Belisario Betancur Cuartas.

The stated its priorities for inner peace in the decades of guerrilla -ridden country out of poverty, high unemployment and the fight against the drug cartels, he could not fulfill as president. His term ended in 1990. Thereafter, he was again ambassador in the United Kingdom and returned to the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and stomach cancer back to Colombia, where he died on 20 May 1997.

Virgilio Barco Vargas was married to the North Carolina American Isakson Proctor since 1950. From this marriage the daughters Carolina, Julia and Diana Barco Isakson and Virgilio Barco Isakson a son were born. His eldest daughter, Dr. Carolina Barco was Foreign Minister of Colombia under the government of Álvaro Uribe.

  • President ( Colombia)
  • Finance (Colombia )
  • Mayor (Bogotá )
  • Colombian Ambassador to the United Kingdom
  • Colombian Ambassador to the United States
  • Of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique ( Collane )
  • Colombian
  • Born 1921
  • Died in 1997
  • Man
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