Mr. Belisario Betancur This is Me

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1. 1. Board of Directors - Fundación para el Debido Proceso Legal

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   Published on: 2/15/2008   Last Visited: 2/15/2008

   Belisario Betancur President, Fundación Santillana para Iberoamérica Former President of Colombia

2. 2. GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

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   Last Visited: 11/9/2007

   One of the first actions of the new Colombian President, Belisario Betancur, who took office the same year, was to invite García Márquez to return home under his official protection.
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   "He likes to be near power," Betancur observes, "but not to possess it for himself." García Márquez denies, of course, that he has an obsession with power. "It's not my fascination with power," he said to me. "It's the fascination those who are powerful have with me. It's they who seek me out, and confide in me." When I repeated this to one of García Márquez's closest friends in Bogotá, he laughed and rolled his eyes.
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   In 1985, during an impasse in negotiations with the government of President Belisario Betancur, M19 guerrillas seized the Palace of justice and held the entire Colombian Supreme Court hostage. The Army responded by destroying the building. More than a hundred people were killed, including eleven justices and thirty-five guerrillas. Hundreds more of the M19's members were killed by right-wing death squads over the next few years.

3. 3. Historical Text Archive: Articles: Noriega and Key Players in the Drug Trade, Part I

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   Published on: 8/19/2003   Last Visited: 3/31/2004

   Skeptically they recall that, five years ago, Mr. Barco's Conservative Party predecessor, Belisario Betancur, launched a similar offensive against the cocaine mafia.
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   Mr. Betancur, a nationalist, had been reluctant to extradite drug racketeers to the U.S. He did not seem overly perturbed by the narcotics problem until traffickers forced his hand by murdering his tough, anti-drug justice minister, Rodrigo Lara. After the murder, Mr. Betancur -- the instant crusader -- pounced on the cocaine gangs and announced that extraditions would be resumed.
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   Belisario Betancur, b. 1923, became president of Columbia on May 30, 1982. Betancur was reared in extreme poverty but was able to attend the university in Medellin, where he studied architecture and law. He worked as a journalist and became active in the Conservative party. He was variously a member of the Colombian House of Representatives, minister of labor, and ambassador to Spain. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency in 1962, 1970, and 1978.