Álvaro Colom Caballeros

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Álvaro Colom (2007)

Álvaro Colom Caballeros (born June 15, 1951 in Guatemala City ) was President of Guatemala from January 14, 2008 to January 14, 2012 . The entrepreneur and politician is a member of the UNE party .

Life

Álvaro Colom ran in the presidential election on September 9, 2007 to succeed Óscar Berger Perdomo . He received the second most votes (28.23%) in the first ballot and stood on November 4th Otto Pérez Molina in a runoff election, which he won with almost 53 percent of the vote. He was the first Social Democratic President of Guatemala. In 2003 he married Sandra Torres . The couple divorced in 2011. Ms. Torres ran for president in 2015 and 2019 - unsuccessfully.

He, his wife Sandra, his private secretary Gustavo Adolfo Alejos Cámbara and the entrepreneur Gregorio Valdez O'Connell were killed by the lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, who was shot on May 10, 2009, in a video message of illegal business of the Banco de Desarrollo Rural SA and the Accused of the murder of the businessman Khalil Musa, his daughter and the murder of Rosenberg himself. A UN investigation commission concluded on January 12, 2010 that at least Rosenberg had orchestrated his own murder.

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  1. ↑ Exciting runoff election expected in Guatemala (tagesschau.de archive).
  2. ↑ FAZ: Guatemala moves to the left
  3. ↑ Presidential couple in Guatemala: Until the constitution divides you , on Süddeutsche.de
  4. ^ Ezra Fieser: The Guatemalan Who Ordered His Own Murder. In: Time Magazine . January 14, 2010, accessed January 16, 2010 .
predecessor Office successor
Óscar Berger Perdomo President of Guatemala
January 14, 2008-14. January 2012 		Otto Pérez Molina
personal data
SURNAME Colom Caballeros, Álvaro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Guatemalan entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Guatemala City