ALBERTO LLERAS CAMARGO

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ALBERTO LLERAS CAMARGO

AlbertoLlerasCamargo (Bogota, July 3, 1906 -January 4, 1990) was ajournalist, diplomatand statesmanColombianwho tookthe presidencyin two periodsof their country.It was also thefirst secretary generalof the Organization ofAmerican Statesand of RepresentativesofColombiaas a 4/20/12 representativeof the Liberal

EARLY YEARS
His parentswere FelipeLlerastrianaand Sofia camargo guerrero. After beingorphanedof his father,his educationwas in the handsof his uncles.He later studiedat the College oft theCollegeMayor de NuestraSeora delRosario. He beganstudying lawat the University ofRosario,butsoon abandoned.He spenthis earlyyouthto journalism,thenintercalaraactivitywith politics.In 1926he traveledto Argentina where he workedin the Nation.In 1929he returnedto Bogota, after abrief stint inEurope, and wasmanaging editor ofTime and editor of the dailynewspaper LaTarde.He marriedBertha 4/20/12 ChileanPuga,andthey had fourchildren

waselected to the Houseof Representatives, always inBogota. That sameyear he becamethe firstliberalto get topreside over the Housein more than fortyyears .En1945 wasappointed Ministerof ForeignAffairs,and as such,represented Colombia at the Chapultepec Conferenceand the Conference ofSanFrancisco, 4/20/12 whichcreated theUN.Being

First Presidencyandpolitical career

The founding of theOEA

After leaving thegovernment in 1946, founded themagazine Semana.Thanks to theprestige gainedasForeign Ministerand President,waselected Director ofthe Pan American Unionin 1947.Undertook arestructuring effortsof the organization, culminating inthe foundingof the Organization ofAmerican 4/20/12 Statesthroughthe Bogota

Later years

After retiring fromthe presidency, Llerasactedseveral timesas headof his party, to beguarantor ofinternal discussions. Althoughhe enjoyedgreat popularity untilhis death, as it was concerningand chiefof all the governmentsafterhis (liberaland conservative), neverran forreelection.He devoted much ofhis energiesto journalism, as chairmanof the editorial boardof the journalVision,weekandas a columnist forseveral publications. He died inBogotin 1990.

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