Fernando Araújo Perdomo
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| Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
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| Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores | |
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| In office since | February 19, 2007 |
| Preceded by | Maria Consuelo Araujo |
| Succeeded by | Incumbent |
| Born | 1955 Cartagena Bolivar  Colombia |
| Residence | Cartagena |
| Political party | Conservative Party |
| Profession(s) | Engineer |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Fernando Araújo Perdomo (born c. 1955 in Cartagena, Bolivar.) was the Minister of Development of Colombia during the administration of Andrés Pastrana. He resigned to this post after the Chambacú land deal scandal. He was later kidnapped by the FARC-EP guerrillas and held for six year until he eventually escape. Two months later after his liberation, president Alvaro Uribe appointed him as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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[edit] Education
Araújo graduated from high school in the Colegio La Salle in the city of Cartagena, he then moved to Bogotá and studied Civil engineering at the Pontifical Xavierian University[1]
[edit] Chambacú case
He resigned after Ignacio Gómez published in El Espectador the note "Chambacú, corral de empresarios",[2] in which he was accused of participating in a corrupt land deal. [3] [4]
[edit] Kidnapping
While he was under investigation, he was kidnapped on December 4, 2000 by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and escaped more than six years later, on December 31, 2006 after a Colombian National Army military operation in the Montes de María mountains in the southern regions of the Bolivar Department. Araújo spent several days in hiding without food or water until eventually finding help and then facing the press on January 5, 2007. [5] [6].
[edit] Minister of Foreign Affairs
On February 19, 2007, Araújo was appointed as new Minister of Foreign Affairs by President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, replacing María Consuelo Araújo (no relation to Araújo Perdomo) who resigned due to her brother's involvment in the 2006–2007 Colombian para-political scandal.[7]
[edit] Family
Fernando Araújo Perdomo is one of the eight siblings of Alberto Araújo Merlano and Judith Perdomo. Araujo's brothers and sisters are Alberto Ignacio, Liana, Gerardo, Judith Elvira, Carolina, Juan Carlos and Rodrigo.[8]
[edit] First marriage
Araújo had four sons from his first marriage; Manuel Santiago, Sergio Alejandro, Fernando Nicolas and Luis Ernesto.[9]
[edit] Second marriage
Araújo's second marriage was with Mónica Yamhure Gossaín. They had been married for only seven months and were planing to have a child when he got kidnapped on December 4, 2000 by the FARC guerrilla, coincidentially it was Yamhure's birthday. She left him while he was in captivity and remarried. Araújo found out about this upon his arrival to Cartagena on January 5, 2007 and few hours after being evacuated from the Montes de María jungle mountains in southern Bolivar. He was surprised at her absence after his release and asked his brother about her whereabouts, his brother immideately told him the truth.[10][11]
[edit] Notes
- ^ (Spanish) Fernando Araújo Perdomo, nuevo Canciller: "Seré el rostro de un país que quiere la paz", El Universal, February 28, 2007. Accessed 28 February 2007.
- ^ (Spanish) El caso Chambacú Instituto Prensa y Sociedad
- ^ Colombian foreign minister resigns, Yahoo news
- ^ (Spanish) Relatos - Chambacú, corral de empresarios
- ^ (Spanish) El Tiempo Newspaper
- ^ BBC News
- ^ (Spanish) Fernando Araújo fue nombrado nuevo Canciller, en remplazo de María Consuelo Araújo, El Tiempo, February 19, 2007. Accessed 19 February 2007.
- ^ (Spanish) Alberto Araujo Merlano, El cacique y su tribu, El Heraldo, February 28, 2007. Accessed 28 February 2007.
- ^ (Spanish) Un ejemplo de tenacidad, El Pais, February 28, 2007. Accessed 28 February 2007.
- ^ (Spanish) "¿Y Mónica?", Ex ministro plagiado relata cautiverio, Univision, February 28, 2007. Accessed 28 February 2007.
- ^ (Spanish) Un ejemplo de tenacidad, El Pais, February 28, 2007. Accessed 28 February 2007.
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