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Fernando Araujo Perdomo is a Colombian politician. He was the Minister of Development during the administration of Andres Pastrana. He resigned from this post after the Chambacu land deal scandal. He was later kidnapped by the FARC-EP guerrillas and held for six years until he eventually escaped. Two months later after his liberation, president Alvaro Uribe appointed him as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Araujo graduated from high school in the Colegio La Salle in the city of Cartagena, he then moved to Bogota and studied Civil engineering at the Pontifical Xavierian University Fernando Araujo Perdomo, nuevo Canciller: "Sere el rostro de un pais que quiere la paz", El Universal, February 28, 2007. Accessed 28 February 2007.
On February 19, 2007, Araujo was appointed as new Minister of Foreign Affairs by President Alvaro Uribe, replacing Maria Consuelo Araujo (no relation to Fernando Araujo) who resigned due to her brother's involvement in the 20062007 Colombian para-political scandal. Fernando Araujo fue nombrado nuevo Canciller, en remplazo de Maria Consuelo Araujo, El Tiempo, February 19, 2007. Accessed 19 February 2007. He resigned from the post on July 16, 2008.
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