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LA MARCHA ATRÁS Alguna vez, observando desde la calle de una megalópolis los efectos notorios de la revolución del pasado decenio, anotábamos que al paso que los negros y los homosexuales parecían haberse aprovechado del barullo para asentar firmemente su nueva personalidad y su condición de gentes libres, las mujeres habían dejado pasar el grueso del escándalo con inocuas variaciones de la moda, y no ¡rían a salir más independientes de lo que fueron hasta ahora, sino, probablemente, menos. Cuando ya parece que la moda se precipita a bajar la línea de la falda, se ve más claro que no han sacado nada, o muy poco, de este movimiento que ha contribuido a liberara más de un grupo social. La revolución, si así puede llamarse algo que va desapareciendo antes de haber entrado a la historia como una vacua agitación sin mucho sentido, fue, realmente, permisiva en materias sexuales, hasta el extremo límite. Ciertas mujeres se prestaron con entusiasmo a convertirse en el símbolo del sexo liberado, en la atracción y exhibición que parecía limitarse a una parte mínima y muy atrayente de su personalidad, con obliteración de las demás. Comenzaron a desnudarse, a mostrar los senos, el ombligo, las piernas y por último la integridad de su cuerpo como la palmaria demostración de que ia gran revuelta no perseguía otro objetivo que hacer de la mujer un objeto sexual fácil y menos estimable, ya sin nin-
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Diplomat journalist President of Colombia
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A journalist and liberal party politician, he also served as Minister of Government, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and as Minister of National Education in the administrations of President Alfonso López Pumarejo. Lleras Camargo served as congressman of Colombia. In 1929, he was elected deputy assemblyman on the Bogotá city council, his first entrance into politics.
The following year he became Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Colombian Liberal Party and in 1931, he was elected to the Colombian Chamber of Representatives.
That same year, he became the first Liberal to preside over the Chamber in more than forty years. After Alfonso López Pumarejo was elected President of Colombia in 1934, Lleras Camargo was named Cabinet Secretary.
In 1935, he became the Minister of Government, a position he occupied until the end of López Pumarejo’s presidential term in 1938. In 1938, he founded the newspaper El Liberal, which promoted López Pumarejo’s re-election.
In 1941, he returned to and once again presided over the Chamber of Representatives.
When López Pumarejo was re-elected president in 1942, he once again named Lleras Camargo the Minister of Government. Aside from a brief interruption in 1943, when Lleras Camargo became the Colombian Ambassador to the United States, he occupied that position until 1944, when intense political instability disrupted López Pumarejo’s presidency. In July 1944, after López Pumarejo stepped down, Lleras Camargo fought off a coup attempt against Darío Echandía, who had been temporarily designated as president
In 1945, he became Minister of Foreign Relations, and in that capacity, represented Colombia at the Chapultepec Conference and the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco, which created the United Nations.
But that same year, the Senate named designated him as Acting President, a position he occupied until 1946, when Conservative Mariano Ospina Pérez was elected president At only thirty-nine years-old, he became one of the youngest Acting Presidents in Colombian history.
During his short year in office, the Greater Colombian Merchant Fleet was founded and the Constitutional Reform of 1945 completed. After leaving the presidency in 1946, Lleras Camargo founded the highly-regarded news magazine Semana.
Owing to the respect and prestige he had earned as Minister of Foreign Relations and President of Colombia, he was named Director of the Pan American Union in 1947.
He launched a restructuring effort, which culminated in the founding the Organization of American States in 1948. Lleras Camargo served as the first General Secretary between 1948-1949 and later completed a full five-year term between 1950 and 1954. During his second term, the organization became more consolidated as a hemispheric organization, with increased continental participation.
Alberto Lleras Camargo spent most of his life in search of peaceful solutions to the problems of Latin America and his native land.
Holder of many honorary degrees from universities in Latin America and the United States, including Harvard and Yale, Lleras was also an honorary colonel in the Colombian army.
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(13 March 1909 – 9 August 2007)
20th President of Colombia
