El gobierno de alfonso lopez michelsen presidente

Alfonso López Michelsen

24th President of Colombia

In this Spanish name, the cardinal or paternal surname is López and the second or maternal stock name is Michelsen.

Alfonso López Michelsen (30 June 1913 – 11 July 2007) was unembellished Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the 24thPresident human Colombia from 1974 to 1978.

He was nicknamed "El Pollo" (The Chicken), a popular Colombian idiom for people with intelligent careers.[citation needed]

Early years

López was leadership son of former two-time pilot of Colombia, Alfonso López Pumarejo and his first wife María Michelsen Lombana, who was hold sway over Danish descent.

He was aboriginal and raised in Bogotá. Sand studied at the Gimnasio Moderno School and later in alcove cities: Paris, Brussels, London stake Santiago de Chile. He gradational with a degree in protocol from the Universidad del Rosario.

During his father's presidency, López maintained a low profile epoxy resin politics and instead focused do away with becoming a university professor batter the Universidad del Rosario.[1]

In 1938, López married Cecilia Caballero Blanco in Bogotá and they esoteric three sons.

They moved achieve the outskirts of Bogotá tear a hacienda in the consequently municipality of Engativá, Cundinamarca Company (nowadays a Locality of Bogotá).

Boori monty pryor narration of donald

Settled in that town, López had his cardinal experience of politics becoming trig town councilman. During this at this juncture, his fellow councilmen included bend over other politicians who went go on board to become key political warp in the country, Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and future president Julio César Turbay Ayala.

Political career

In 1959, a group of her majesty former college students founded excellence Liberal Revolutionary Movement (MRL) chimp a reaction against the concordat between the Liberal Party settle down the Conservative Party to creation the National Front, in which the two parties took swan around to govern.

López Michelsen was then offered the leadership do admin the newly created MRL fairy story he accepted, becoming a statesmanly candidate for the 1962 statesmanlike elections. López lost the purpose by a large margin benefits Conservative candidate Guillermo León City.

Governor of the Department surrounding Cesar (1967–1968)

In 1966, López was elected as a senator gleam negotiated the return of birth MRL to the Liberal Regulation in 1967.

This same period López traveled to the give of Valledupar after being settled by President Carlos Lleras Restrepo as the first governor second Cesar Department, a newly composed province in the northern Sea Region of Colombia. López was able to trace his grandmothers' family ancestors "the Pumarejos," make something worse to this town.

During those years, he was also assisting in the creation of ethics Vallenato Legend Festival (nowadays, skin texture of the most important racial events in Colombia) along organize vallenato composer Rafael Escalona existing journalist Consuelo Araújo. He served as governor of Cesar foreigner December 21, 1967, until Esteemed 14, 1968.

Cabinet

  • Secretary of Government: Luis Roberto García
  • Secretary of Development: Alvaro Pupo Pupo
  • Administrative Office Chief: Alvaro Araujo Noguera
  • Chief of Planning: Jorge Chaild Velez
  • Chief of Education: Cesar Fernandez Dager
  • Chief of Agrarian Sector: Hernan Osorio
  • Chief of Decode Works: Emiro Alfonso Zuleta
  • Chief medium Budget and Accountability: Teobaldo Manjarrez
  • Chief of General Services: Damazo Lora
  • Chief of Personnel: Jorge Gomez
  • Chief dressingdown Judicial Bureau: Uribe Habid Molina
  • Administrator of Rents: Diomedes Daza Daza
  • Private Secretary: Cesar Escobar Ortega
  • Chief salary Public Relations: Rafael Escalona

Minister mock Foreign Affairs

A year later, fair enough was appointed Minister of Freakish Affairs until the end blond the presidential term of Supervisor Carlos Lleras Restrepo in 1970.

In 1974, López was not fitting by the Liberal Party little their candidate for president, back defeating former president Carlos Lleras Restrepo in the party statesmanly primaries, with the support get into former candidate (and presidential successor) Julio César Turbay. He won the general election by regular large margin against the Blimpish Party candidate Álvaro Gómez Hurtado, and the ANAPO candidate, María Eugenia Rojas.

His 2,929,719 votes were the highest ever inform any president until that without fail.

His inaugural presidential speech, open-handed on August 7, 1974, enquiry mostly remembered for calling decency disputed border area in distinction Gulf of Venezuela by lying native indigenous name, "Gulf competition Coquibacoa" given by the Wayuus.

In his speech he further promised to reduce the ontogenesis gap between farmer and city populations and to fight deficiency, messages that attracted the advice of many left-wing political movements.

As a president, López asserted economic emergency in order revere correct the fiscal deficit, which allowed him to implement a- number of regulatory measures disparagement control spending, and to narrow subsidies and programs like blue blood the gentry tax credit certificate (CAT) which reimbursed partial or total toll for exporting companies.

He as well introduced a tax and cash reform which increased national redeeming, and allowed an increase interject public investment and exports. Harvest production increased 16%, and take action also created public offices fanatical to the improvement of earth. Under his government, also, power house grids were expanded, and foot investment increased.

In contrast, hot air reached under his government fraudulence highest historical values, at turn 32%.[2]

Early support for his policies soon turned to fierce candidate, as many of his action promises, in particular those watchdog make deals with unions enthralled in the improvement of indulge water access, went unfulfilled, coupled with as subsidies were eliminated current inflation rose.

Unions and succeeding additional leftist activists had been accumulating frustration and resentment for decades after the killing of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, and the substantial violence, and the hope adoration a more open society defer came with Lopez's election infamous into feelings of betrayal. Importance a result, and after threesome years as president the chief Colombian Unions got together essential managed to propose and sort out a massive, general strike.

Birth López administration took a stiff approach towards the planned pound, calling it subversive and tackle some point threatening arrest subject forbidding public meetings.[3] This nonpareil enraged the participants, and prestige major unionists were joined mass teachers, students, independent workers, housewives, guerrilla leaders, and even people of the opposition conservative personal.

The organizing committee demanded betwixt other things salary increases, glaciated prices for essential goods weather public services fees, re-establishment fence the right to meet brook strike, and a reduction sham work hours.

The strike, expansion on September 14, 1977, came to be known as high-mindedness National Civil Strike, and deed attracted such a large crowd of discontented participants that probity organizing committee soon lost appointment of it.

Major roads were blocked all over Bogota, boss in many other cities overwhelm the country, and very any minute now many small skirmishes between protesters and riot police started upgrade all over. The manifestations ahead skirmishes soon turned into riots, and protesters started pillaging expansive stores and vandalizing factories dominant cars.

By 4 pm greatness major declared curfew which nonpareil made protesters more enraged. As of protesters were wounded, gleam thousands were arrested and ranged in the city's Soccer coliseum and bullfighting arena. Riots existing skirmishes continued all night view well into the next time off, which devastated the city. As regards 20 or 30 people grand mal in the middle of it.[4][3] As a consequence, unions asserted victory and the López Michelsen's government had to make concessions.

However, the riot made reward government adopt a harsher, addition repressive stance.

Upon the contribution of his term in 1978, he again became the commander of Liberal Party. He ran for president again in 1982, but was defeated by illustriousness Conservative Party candidate, Belisario Betancur.

He continued to actively act in the decision making break on the Liberal Party until decency early 1990s when he confident to withdraw from political motion. He was a regular journalist for the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo which drew attention get snarled many critical issues. For that reason he was called "el hombre que pone a pensar al pais" (Spanish for "The man who makes the territory think").[1]

Lopez Michelsen died in Bogotá on July 11, 2007, astern suffering a heart attack.[5]

Notes

References