Alberto Santofimio

Who is Alberto Santofimio?

Alberto Santofimio Botero is a Colombian politician member of the Colombian Liberal Party.

He has been Minister of Justice, a two-time presidential candidate and a Senator. He was considered to be a sure bet for president in 1982, but he decided to let his boss, Alfonso Lopez Michelsen who had been President from 1974 to 1978, run for reelection. In the '90s, Santofimio was involved in the campaign Process 8000 as head of the Liberal Party in Tolima region as that party's office was accused of receiving money from companies part of an investigation in order to support the campaign for the presidency of Colombia for Ernesto Samper.

He was part of the 1990 pool of candidates for the presidency in the Liberal Party. After the assassination of another candidate, Luis Carlos Galan Sarmiento, he and the other members of the National Directive of the Liberal Party, decided to support Cesar Gaviria, the campaign manager of Galan to be the sole Liberal Party candidate in 1990.