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Alfonso López Michelsen
2007Jul, 11

Alfonso López Michelsen

Alfonso López Michelsen, Colombian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Colombia (b. 1913)
Alfonso López Michelsen (30 June 1913 – 11 July 2007) was a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the 24th President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978. He was nicknamed "El Pollo" (The Chicken), a popular Colombian idiom for people with precocious careers.

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