Juan Manuel Corzo Román
Politician
1961 –
Who is Juan Manuel Corzo Román?
Juan Manuel Corzo Román is a Colombian lawyer and politician, currently serving as Senator of Colombia since 2002. A Conservative party politician, he was first elected to Congress as Representative for the Department of North Santander in 1998. He ran and was elected Senator of Colombia in 2002, continuing to be re-elected in 2006 and 2010; he forms part of the First Commission of the Senate.
In 12 April 1999 Corzo was kidnapped along with the 39 other passengers of an Avianca Fokker flight between Bucaramanga and Cúcuta by a command of the National Liberation Army, a leftist terrorist guerrilla group, and was held captive for 17 months until his release in September 2000.
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- Born
- Oct 3, 1961
Cúcuta - Spouses
- Profession
- Education
- Saint Thomas Aquinas University
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on July 23, 2013
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