The winner by a better than two-to-one margin: Carlos Lleras Restrepo, 58, economist, educator and longtime leader of Colombia’s Liberal Party (TIME, April 1). Lleras Restrepo, who will take ...

He is Alberto Lleras Camargo, the longtime Liberal leader (and distant cousin of Lleras Restrepo) who served ably from 1958 to 1962 as the front’s first President, then retired to Manhattan and ...

Lleras Restrepo, a former president of Colombia who led the drive for economic union in Latin America in the 1960s, died in Bogota, Colombia, of a respiratory infection Tuesday, his family said.

Former Vice-President German Vargas is a veteran politician who was born into one of Colombia’s political dynasties and has long been close to or in power. Vargas was born in Bogota on February 19, ...