Ernesto Samper

Ernesto Samper Pizano, ( born August 3, 1950 in Bogotá ) is a Colombian politician ( Partido Liberal Colombiano, PLC ). He was on August 7, 1994 to August 7, 1998 President of the Republic of Colombia.

Family and Education

Ernesto Samper Pizano was born on August 3, 1950 in the Colombian capital Bogota, the son of an industrialist family. After graduation he studied law in Bogotá and Economics at the University Xaveriana. He then worked in the banking sector and the University, from 1974 to 1981 he was chairman of the Colombian Banking Association. He is married with Jacky Strauss de Samper.

Political career

Samper in 1974 joined the Liberal Party of Colombia. 1982 made ​​him the ex-president Alfonso López Michelsen to his campaign manager for the presidential elections in the same year; López Michelsen, however, lost to the conservative candidate Belisario Betancur.

After this election Samper began his political career as a Member of the Department of Cundinamarca ( 1982-1984 ). In addition, he was elected for the electoral periods 1982-1986 and 1986-1990 in the Colombian Senate; 1984-1986 he was a deputy in the Congress of Bogota.

After Samper had profiled in the Liberal Party, he left in 1990 to set up the internal party primaries for the presidential candidates. There, however, he reached only the third place behind César Gaviria and former Minister Hernando Durán Dussán.

Gaviria Trujillo won the presidential election in the same year and appointed Samper then the Minister of Development. From 1991 to 1993 was ambassador Samper of Colombia in Spain. He returned to Colombia to participate in the presidential elections of 1994 can. This time he won the primaries in the Liberal Party against his two later Vice President Humberto de la Calle (1994-1997) and Carlos Lemos Simmonds (1997-1998).

President

In the presidential elections in May 1994 Samper defeated in the second round of the conservative candidate and eventual successor Andrés Pastrana. Shortly after taking office on 7 August 1994, he was accused of having financed his campaign with more than six million U.S. dollars of the Cali cartel. During the subsequent investigation by the Colombian Constitutional Court, the (Spanish: Proceso 8000 ) as a process 8000 was known, denied Samper to have known of the drug money and put all responsibility on his defense minister and former Treasurer Fernando Botero, the son of the painter of the same name and sculptor.

Details and operation of the corruption under Samper are in Ingrid Betancourt's book The anger in my heart nachlesbar.

Samper term of office ended on 7 August 1998.

  • President ( Colombia)
  • Senator (Colombia )
  • Member of the Partido Liberal Colombiano
  • Colombian Ambassador to Spain
  • Colombian
  • Person (Bogotá )
  • Born in 1950
  • Man
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