Humberto de La Calle
Humberto de La Calle Lombana (born July 14, 1946 in Manzanares , Departamento de Caldas ) is a Colombian lawyer and politician of the Partido Liberal Colombiano and former diplomat .
Life
In 1990, Humberto de La Calle was appointed Interior Minister by President César Gaviria in his cabinet and held this office until 1993. In the 1994 presidential elections , he was Ernesto Samper's vice-presidential candidate for the Partido Liberal Colombiano (Liberal Party of Colombia) and, after they were elected, he became vice-president. Samper's campaign was allegedly supported by more than six million US dollars in election donations from the infamous Cali cartel . Unlike other leading supporters of Sampers, De La Calle did not resign after the so-called "drug scandal" became known. However, in the middle of Sampers' term in office, he resigned from Vice President in September 1996 and was then replaced by Carlos Lemos Simmonds . As a reason for his resignation, he saw the fear that the "country would fall to pieces".
In 1996 he was ambassador to Spain , and from 1998 to 2000, the newly elected president appointed him Andrés Pastrana to ambassador in the United Kingdom . After his dismissal from this post, Pastrana appointed him to succeed the resigned Néstor Humberto Martínez as Minister of the Interior in his government. In this role he was a close supporter of the president's efforts to make peace with the left-wing guerrillas . In February 2001, however, he resigned from this office and was then Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) between 2001 and 2002 .
In the presidential elections in Colombia in 2002 he turned down a candidacy for the office of president for the Conservative Party, so that the former Minister for Economic Development, Augusto Ramírez Ocampo , became its presidential candidate.
In November 2017, the Partido Liberal Colombiano nominated him as its candidate in the presidential election on May 27, 2018.
Web links
- 2018 Presidential Campaign website (Spanish)
- Biography (spanish)
Footnotes
- ↑ Humberto de la Calle será el candidato presidencial de los liberales . In: El Colombiano (Medellín), November 19, 2017, accessed November 20, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Calle, Humberto de La |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Calle Lombana, Humberto de la (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Colombian politician and ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manzanares , Caldas |