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Alvaro Uribe Velez is the 39th President of Colombia and is currently serving his second term in office.
Uribe started his politics career in his home department of Antioquia. He has held office in the Medellin Public Enterprises (Empresas Publicas de Medellin) and in the Ministry of Labor and in the Civil Aeronautic. Later he held office as the mayor of Medellin in 1982, then he was Senator between 1986 and 1994 and finally Governor of Antioquia between 1995 and 1997 before he was elected President of Colombia in 2002. Under his presidency, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have suffered a series of military defeats, the main paramilitary groups have gone through a demobililization process and he has spearheaded several Free Trade Agreements with different countries.
He was elected governor of the department of Antioquia for the 1995 to 1997 term. During his term, Uribe put in practice what he termed the model for a communitarian state, where in theory citizens would participate in the administration's decision making. It was claimed that this model would help improve employment, education, administrative transparency and public security.
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