Carlos Gaviria Díaz

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Carlos Gaviria Díaz
Senator of Colombia
In office
20 July 2006 – 20 July 2010
Magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Colombia
In office
1 March 1993 – 1 March 2001
Personal details
Born
Carlos Emilio Gaviria Díaz

(1937-05-08)8 May 1937
LLD)
Harvard Law School (MA)
ProfessionLawyer
In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Gaviria and the second or maternal family name is Díaz.

Carlos Emilio Gaviria Díaz (8 May 1937 – 31 March 2015) was a Colombian lawyer, professor and politician. He served as the 5th

Álvaro Uribe Vélez
, who was seeking his second term in office.

Academic career

Graduated from the

Doctorate of Law and Political Science in 1965 with his thesis titled Notes on an Introductory Course on the Study of Law, which earned him an Honourable Mention.[4]

He returned to his

paramilitary forces in Colombia to weed out their detractors, among them Gaviria; he received death threats and was forced to go into exile in Argentina.[6][7] He returned later and resumed his work at the University of Antioquia as Director of the Institute of Political Science in 1988, and Deputy Rector of the University from 1989 to 1992.[2][5]

Among his pupils was

Philosophy of Law during a time where each other's political philosophies tended to lean more towards the established Liberal Party,[8] but as time passed both moved away from each other in the political spectrum
leading up to become the political antagonists they were during the 2000s.

Judicial career

Gaviria began his judicial career the same year he graduated from university in 1961 when he was appointed Municipal Promiscuous Judge of Rionegro, but he returned to Medellín when he was named Professor at the University of Antioquia.

In 1992 Gaviria was nominated as part of the

Judicial Branch of Colombia recently created by the Colombian Constitution of 1991
. Gaviria was successfully confirmed by the Senate, and took office on 1 March 1993 as part of the first permanent Constitutional Court for a constitutional term of 8 years.

On 1 March 1996 Gaviria was elected

Chief Magistrate of the Constitutional Court, replacing José Gregorio Hernández Galindo from 1 March 1996 to 1 March 2001, when Gaviria finished his term as Magistrate in the court, and was replaced by Alfredo Beltrán Sierra as Chief Magistrate.[10]

Political career

In 2002, he was elected

Senator of Colombia representing the leftist political formation, the Social and Political Front, after achieving the fifth-highest voting result in the elections.[11]

He ran for the presidency of Colombia for the 2006–2010 term, as the candidate of the Alternative Democratic Pole, after winning the bloc nomination over Antonio Navarro.

Polls in late April 2006 placed Gaviria in second place after incumbent President Álvaro Uribe, leaving behind the

Liberal Party's Horacio Serpa
, who was running for president for the third consecutive time. He lost to President Uribe in the May 2006 election by a margin of 62% to 22%.

Cristina Fernández
in 2008.

Political views

One of his main political proposals was to attempt to change Colombia's socio-economic model, which he believed to exemplify some of the worst characteristics of capitalism at a global and local level. By doing this, Gaviria intended to reduce the gap between the rich and poor. Gaviria argued, as do many of his supporters, that this gap has increased over the 2000s and continues to grow, in part due to the economic policies of President Álvaro Uribe's administrations. He disagreed with measures intended to make local and foreign investment more attractive at the cost of reducing benefits for the working class, while simultaneously increasing indirect taxes on the poor and reducing income taxes for the wealthy. Gaviria was also a strong defender of Colombia's 1991 Constitution, in principle, but believed it necessary to fully apply its chapters on human, ethnic and political rights, while at the same time restoring some of the controls that he considered the government and the state should have over the nation's economy and society.

Electoral history

2002 Colombian legislative election[11]
List Party Total Votes Percent of Total Seats won Stronghold
517 Social and Political Front 116,067 1.156% 1 Capital District
2006 Colombian presidential election[12]
Candidate Party Total Votes Percent of Total
Álvaro Uribe Vélez
 Colombia First 7,397,835 62.35%
Carlos Gaviria Díaz Alternative Democratic Pole 2,613,157 22.02%
Horacio Serpa Uribe
 Liberal 1,404,275 11.83%
Antanas Mockus Šivickas
Indigenous Social Alliance
 146,583 1.23%
Enrique Parejo González National Democratic Reconstruction 42,652 0.35%
Álvaro Leyva Duran National Movement for Reconciliation 18,263 0.15%
Carlos Arturo Rincón Barreto Communal and Communitarian Movement 15,388 0.12%

Personal life

Carlos Emilio was born on 8 May 1937 in

Roman Catholic tradition.[15][16]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Interpretación, Argumentación y Decisión Judicial: Desafíos de la Reforma a la Justicia" [Interpretation, Argumentation, and Decision: Challenges of the Justice Reform] (PDF). Faculty of International Relations and Judicial and Political Sciences, Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. 2010-08-18. Retrieved 2010-11-06.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b c "Carlos Gaviria, Presidente del Polo Democrático Alternativo de Colombia visita Madrid" [Carlos Gaviria, President of the Alternative Democratic Pole Visits Madrid] (in Spanish). Alternative Democratic Pole. 2009-03-18. Archived from the original on 2009-04-26. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  3. ^ "El Poder En Colombia: Los Cien Personajes Más Influyentes de Colombia" [Power In Colombia: The One Hundred Most Influential People in Colombia]. Dinero. 1995-01-05. Archived from the original on 2010-01-14. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  4. OCLC 6647915
    .
  5. ^
    Terra Colombia. Archived from the original
    on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  6. Revista Semana
     (in Spanish). 1987-11-23. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  7. ^ Abad Faciolince, Héctor (March 2006). "Dos exiliados de pelo blanco" [Two White Haired Exiled Men]. SoHo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  8. OCLC 173692261
    .
  9. ^ "Corte Constitucional: Modelo Para Armar" [Constitutional Court: Model To Build Upon]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 1992-11-27. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  10. ^ "Relevo En La Corte" [Takeover In The Court]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 1996-03-01. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  11. ^
    Registraduría Nacional del Estado Civil. 2002-11-16. Archived from the original
    on 2002-12-04. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  12. ^ "Republic of Colombia: Electoral Results: 2006 Presidential election". Political Database of the Americas. 2006-03-12. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  13. ^ Restrepo Jaramillo, Iván. "Carlos Gaviria Diaz". GeneaNet. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  14. ^ "La Compañia de Carlos Gaviria" [The Partner of Carlos Gaviria]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 2006-04-03. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
  15. OCLC 43021040
    .
  16. ^ Salazar, Hernando (2009-05-31). "Colombia: ateos salen del clóset" [Atheists Come Out Of The Closet]. BBC News. Retrieved 2010-11-06.

Further reading

  • Pelaez, Luis Fernando (2006). Arellano Ortíz, Fernando; Peña Díaz, Héctor (eds.). Carlos Gaviria: El Reto de una Colombia Justa [Carlos Gaviria: The Challenge of a Just Colombia] (in Spanish). Bogotá: Ediciones Veramar.
    OCLC 76186106
    .

External links
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