César Gaviria

And then they invited me to Columbia, and I gave a few speeches.

And the next thing you know, they ushered me into the then-president Gaviria, Cesar Gaviria.

And they hired me to lead a process to improve their export competitiveness and their private sector development.

And that project succeeded.

[birds chirping] Up in the north of Colombia, the U'wa people lost three of their best leaders, their wise men, in December 1990, murdered by paramilitaries associated with the army and the big landowners.

These violent events have brought the Indian peoples of Colombia together to petition the president himself.

They got little sympathy.

I have asked many people, even the very president of the republic, Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, to make the denouncement.

In my statement, I said some of these words to the president.

"That's enough.

For 500 years, that's enough." I said to him, "What is our enormous sin? What is our enormous debt that we should deserve so much suffering and death, Mr.

Sin embargo, cuando se pensaba que ella iba a ser la persona nombrada para ser la encargada de establecer las relaciones entre el Gobierno y lo que estaba pasando en, eh, Pereira, pues resultó nombrada Ana María Cuartas.

Ella venía avalada por el jefe del Partido Liberal, que es de Pereira, el expresidente César Gaviria, una familia muy importante de Pereira y de Risaralda.

Después del nombramiento de ella, el Partido Liberal, oh, sorpresa, terminó, eh, declarando o declarándose como partido de Gobierno.

Ahí les dejo el dato.