Humberto De la Calle
Humberto de la Calle Lombana | |
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Horacio Serpa Uribe | |
Personal details | |
Born | Manzanares, Caldas | 14 July 1946
Political party | Colombian Liberal Party |
Spouse | Rosalba Restrepo |
Alma mater | University of Caldas |
Profession | Lawyer |
Humberto de la Calle Lombana (Spanish pronunciation:
Education and family
During his high school years, De La Calle was a known activist of Nadaism and an admirer of Colombian poet Gonzalo Arango. He studied at the University of Caldas where he earned a law degree and met his future wife and mother of his three children. De La Calle then went on to study International Law at the Inter-American Judicial Committee in 1979. De la Calle is an atheist.[2]
Law career
De la Calle became a professor while practicing his law profession under private law firms. He started teaching in 1978 and became
For almost a decade De la Calle served in the
Political career
In 1990 he was appointed to the
In the 1994 Presidential election, Samper and De La Calle were elected. In the May primary election and the June general election of 1994, Samper and De la Calle were elected. De la Calle's relationship with President Samper was not strong and he was appointed as Ambassador to Spain while still serving as vice president.
In 1996 with the outbreak of the
De la Calle then allied with
From 2001 to 2003 De la Calle served as Colombia's Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS). Afterwards he worked in his own law firm with his associates Ignacio Londoño Rivera, José Miguel de la Calle Restrepo and Mario Posada García-Peña. The firm offers services on legal advice and legal representation in different legal areas for Colombian nationals and international clients. He is also a regular columnist in the Bogotá daily El Espectador.[4]
2012-2016 Colombian peace process
On 1 October 2012, President
In March 2017, De La Calle announced that he will work to form a coalition of different political parties in order to provide a unified front that will protect and implement the peace agreements.
He was elected senator in 2022 under the colors of the Oxygen Green Party. He was excluded shortly afterwards, following a conflict with Íngrid Betancourt.[9]
Published work
Books
- La Acción Cambiaria. Editorial Dike. (The Exchange Stock)
- La inoperancia del negocio jurídico. Editorial Temis. (The Inopperativeness of the Judicial Business)
- Anatomía del Cambio -de los sesenta al siglo 21-. Editorial Planeta. (Anatomy of Change)
- En defensa de la Descentralización. (Defending Decentralization)
- Código Electoral Comentado. Editorial Legis. (Commented Electoral Code)
- Intervenciones en la Asamblea Constituyente de 1991 como Ministerio de Gobierno. (Interventions as Minister of Government in the Constituent Assembly of Colombia)
- Carta Democrática Interamericana –Documentos e Interpretaciones- OEA. (Editor y autor del capítulo sobre Colombia). (Inter-American Democratic Charter-Document and Interpretations- OAS. (editor and author of the chapter on Colombia))
Magazine articles
- La inexistencia (en el campo jurídico). Revista de Derecho Comercial. (The Unexistance (in the judicial field)
- Contrato de Seguros y Desvalorización Monetaria. Derecho Colombiano. (Insurance contracts and Monetary devaluation. Second Semester of 1981)
- Buena fe y buena fe exenta de culpa en materia cambiaria. Derecho Colombiano. Segundo Semestre de 1983. (Good Faith and Good Faith Exempt from Culpability in Exchange Matters)
- Títulos Valores. Revista de la Cámara de Comercio de Manizales. (Securities. Manizales Chamber of Commerce Magazine)
- La Constitución y el manejo del Orden Público. Revista de la Universidad de los Andes. (The Constitution and the Handling of Public Order)
- The Nature of Public, Private and Mixed Financing. In Financing Democracies in Latin America. The Carter Center. March 2003.
- Transparency and accountability in Colombia. In Public Sector Transparency and Accountability. OECD. OEA. 2002.
- Los Partidos Políticos en América Latina. En Dinero y Contienda Política-electoral. IFE. Méjico. 2001. (The Political Parties in Latin America. Money and Electoral-Political Contendents)
- Financiación de los Partidos Políticos y las Campañas Electorales en Colombia. En La financiación de la política en Iberoamérica. IIDH. CAPEL. (Political Parties and Electoral Campaigns Financing in Colombia. On the Financing of Politics in Latin America)
References
- ^ a b "Humberto de la Calle, jefe del equipo negociador". 5 September 2012.
- ^ Redacción, El Tiempo (23 May 2009). "Ateos se confiesan 16 personalidades del país; lo hicieron en el libro 'Manual de Ateología'". El Tiempo. El Tiempo. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ^ "De Humberto al doctor de la Calle". 4 November 2014.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2007-05-10.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Santos explicó los cambios del nuevo acuerdo de paz con las Farc". 12 November 2016.
- ^ "Congreso refrendó el acuerdo de paz con las Farc". 30 November 2016.
- ^ Redacción Politíca (2017-03-17). "De la Calle habla como candidato: "lo que no le conviene a Colombia es la política del coscorrón"" (in Spanish). El Espectador. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
- ^ Acosta, Luis Jaime. "Colombia's De La Calle seeks to protect peace deal if wins presidency". U.S. Retrieved 2018-05-26.
- ^ Colprensa (2022-10-28). "Las sumas y restas que hacen Humberto de la Calle e Ingrid Betancourt". www.vanguardia.com (in Spanish).
- (in Spanish) De la Calle, Londoño and Posada Law Firm
- (in Spanish) Dinero "Power in Colombia: The hundred most influential people in Colombia" Archived 2009-10-27 at the Wayback Machine