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Lleras Camargo

American  
[ye-rahs kah-mahr-gaw] / ˈjɛ rɑs kɑˈmɑr gɔ /

noun

  1. Alberto 1906–89, Colombian journalist, writer, and political leader: president 1945–46, 1958–62.


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She says she was impressed above all by the Colombian president, Alberto Lleras Camargo, whom she finds “Nordic in his sadness.”

From New York Times Sep. 12, 2011

Liberal Alberto Lleras Camargo, who became Colombia's first coalition President in 1958, was an able administrator who held the frente together by sheer statesmanship.

From Time Magazine Archive

Colombia's democratic government is relatively progressive but is less impressive than was the regime of brilliant ex-President Alberto Lleras Camargo, who left office in 1962.

From Time Magazine Archive

By virtue of a life spent in high office in Colombia and as the constructive head of the Organization of American States, Alberto Lleras Camargo ranks as Latin America's most creative democratic statesman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Colombia's Lleras Camargo found more fault with the southern end of the Alianza.

From Time Magazine Archive

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