Jorge Alberto Uribe
Jorge Alberto Uribe | |
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![]() Jorge Alberto Uribe Echavarria meeting with his American counterpart Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld in the Pentagon on 30 September 2004 | |
Minister of National Defense | |
In office 9 November 2003 – 7 July 2005 | |
President | Álvaro Uribe |
Preceded by | Marta Lucía Ramírez |
Succeeded by | Camilo Alfonso Ospina |
Personal details | |
Born | Jorge Alberto Uribe Echavarría 30 October 1940 Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia |
Alma mater | George Washington University |
Occupation | Businessman |
Jorge Alberto Uribe Echavarría (born 30 October 1940 in Medellín) is a Colombian politician and businessman. In 2003 the government of President Alvaro Uribe appointed him as Minister of Defense of Colombia.
Biography
[edit]He was educated at primary and secondary schools in Colombia, with two years spent at Culver Military Academy in the United States. He completed a first degree in economics at George Washington University in the US and did post-graduate work in international marketing at Besançon University in France.
He served as his country's minister of defense,[1] succeeding Marta Lucía Ramírez, who was Colombia's first female defence minister. Prior to that appointment, he served as Finland's honorary consul in Bogotá for a period of ten years.
Jorge Alberto Uribe Echavarría is not related to fellow medellinense President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, but the two are old friends.
Controversy
[edit]Jorge Alberto Uribe, rejected the accusations that the newspaper El Nuevo Herald of Miami made about the alleged affair he had with a woman arrested for drug trafficking in El Buen Pastor prison in Medellin. In a press release, the Minister confirmed that he had known this person for ten years and was aware of the alleged criminal activities the woman had been accused with. "In a single opportunity, in early 2003, seven months before my office as Minister of Defense, I visited said person at the Good Shepherd Jail Medellin.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Foreno, Juan (28 November 2004). "Colombian Tells of Marxist Plot Against Bush". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
- ^ "Ministro de Defensa niega aseveraciones del Nuevo Herald". www.elcolombiano.com (in European Spanish). 31 December 1899. Retrieved 31 March 2023.