President Ernesto Samper Pizano Name Gilberto Mejia President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo Role Colombian Politician | ||
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Preceded by Guillermo Alberto Gonzalez Mosquera President Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala Succeeded by Rodrigo Hernan Lloreda Caicedo | ||
Preceded by Helena Herran Gonzalez Preceded by Diego Moreno Jaramillo | ||
Estudiantes del gilberto echeverri mej a tambi n ir n a campos de inmersi n en ingl s
Gilberto Echeverri Mejía (31 July 1936 - 5 May 2003) was a Colombian electrical engineer and politician who on 22 April 2002 was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC-EP along with the then-Governor of Antioquia Guillermo Gaviria Correa among others while participating in a peace walk and held hostage until 5 May 2003 when he was murdered by the guerrillas during a botched rescue operation by government forces deep in the jungles. A Liberal party politician, he had previously served as Ambassador of Colombia to Ecuador from 1975 to 1977 in the Administration of President Alfonso López Michelsen, Minister of Economic Development from 1978 to 1980 in the Administration of President Julio César Turbay Ayala, Minister of National Defence from 1997 to 1998 in the Administration of President Ernesto Samper Pizano, and was working as peace advisor to Governor Gaviria before he was kidnapped.
Contents
- Estudiantes del gilberto echeverri mej a tambi n ir n a campos de inmersi n en ingl s
- Gilberto echeverri mej a
- Personal life
- Works selected
- References
Gilberto echeverri mej a
Personal life
Gilberto was born on 31 July 1936 in Rionegro, Antioquia and was the youngest of twelve children born to José María Echeverri and María Mejía. He finished his secondary education in 1954 at the Pontifical Bolivarian University where he also graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering. In 1962 he married Marta Inés Pérez Mejía, with whom he had three children: Lina María, Jorge Ignacio, and Carlos Arturo.
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