Gustavo Petro

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Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego (2013)

Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego (born April 19, 1960 in Ciénaga de Oro , Departamento de Córdoba ) is a Colombian economist , politician and former member of the guerrilla group " M-19 ". From 2012 to 2015 he was Lord Mayor of the capital Bogotá .

Life

education

Gustavo Petro's parents were farmers. He attended school in Zipaquirá .

After finishing school, Gustavo Petro studied economics at the private university Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogotá, economics and public administration , with a specialization in administration from the Escuela Superior de Administración Pública (ESAP). He then went to Belgium in 1994 and worked there in his country's embassy. At the same time he began a special course in “Population Development and Environment” at the Catholic University of Leuven . After his return to Colombia in 1996, he started a doctoral program “New Trends in Business Administration” at the University of Salamanca ( Spain ), which was mediated by the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá . This caused public speculation over an alleged diploma.

Controversy

He claimed, and this is how it was presented in parts of the Colombian press, that he had completed a doctorate at the University of Salamanca and, according to several Colombian media reports, especially in El Espectador , he never finished his dissertation. Petro wanted to travel to Spain for study research, but never set out because he was prevented by political obligations, as he said.

politics

In his youth he joined the guerrilla group " M-19 " at the age of 17 . He spent two years in prison for illicit gun possession and then went underground. Eventually he joined the Polo Democrático Alternativo (PDA).

In 1991 and 1995 he was elected as a member of the Lower House of Congress . In 2006 he came to the Senate . There he specialized in uncovering links between the then President Álvaro Uribe and the paramilitary forces .

In the election campaign for the post of mayor, he separated from the PDA and replaced Samuel Moreno Rojas , who had to resign in March 2011 because of poor administration and corruption. On October 30, 2011, the citizens elected him future mayor of Bogotá with 32 percent. He held the office from January 1, 2012 to June 6, 2015.

In 2017 he started a campaign for the 2018 presidential elections in Colombia for the Movimiento Progresista , of which he has been the political leader since 2001. He made it to the runoff election on June 17, 2018 against Iván Duque as the first candidate on the left .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jürgen Vogt: From the guerrilla to the town hall. In: the daily newspaper . November 1, 2011, accessed November 3, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego lasillavacia.com, accessed January 24, 2018 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Gustavo Petro contesta a reparos sobre sus títulos universitarios elespectador.com, accessed on June 6, 2018 (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Mi doctorado "Petro, en entrevista de 2011
  5. ↑ El doctorado de Petro
  6. ↑ Los tres títulos falsos de Gustavo Petro
  7. ^ Petro, otro que presume de doctorado, sin tenerl
  8. ↑ Gustavo Petro contesta a reparos sobre sus títulos universitarios elespectador.com, accessed on June 6, 2018 (Spanish)
  9. ↑ Colombia: Can leftist Gustavo Petro become president? Al Jazeera, May 27, 2018, accessed May 27, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Website of the election campaign (Spanish)
  11. ↑ Background news “This morning” from Radio SRF , srf.ch from May 29, 2018, from minute 5:15

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personal data
SURNAME Petro, Gustavo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petro Urrego, Gustavo Francisco (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian economist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Ciénaga de Oro , Department of Cordoba , Colombia