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Colombia President-elect Petro names Ivan Velasquez as defense minister

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Colombia's incoming leftist President Gustavo Petro names Ivan Velasquez as his defense minister. Petro, a 62-year old economist, will become Colombia's first leftist president on Aug. 7. He pledged to fully implement a peace deal with the demobilized FARC guerrillas during his campaign.

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Reuters

Colombia President-elect Petro names Ivan Velasquez as defense minister

Colombia's incoming leftist President Gustavo Petro on Friday named Ivan Velasquez, a former assistant judge in the country's Supreme Court of Justice and previously a UN anti-corruption investigator in Guatemala, as his defense minister.

2 years ago·United Kingdom

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CNN

Petro appoints Iván Velásquez, lawyer with a long history against corruption, as Minister of Defense

Velásquez, born in Medellín in 1955 and lawyer from the University of Antioquia, has a long history in the Colombian judicial system and as commissioner of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala.

2 years ago·Atlanta, United States

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The Star Kuala Lumpur

Colombia President-elect Petro names Ivan Velasquez as defense minister

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's incoming leftist President Gustavo Petro on Friday named Ivan Velasquez, a former assistant judge in the country's Supreme Court of Justice and previously a UN anti-corruption investigator in Guatemala, as his defense minister. Read full story

2 years ago·Malaysia

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