Background
Pastrana was born in Neiva, Huila.
Pastrana was born in Neiva, Huila.
Born in the home of Misael Pastrana Pastrana and Elisa Borrero Perdomo, studied Law in Javeriana University of Bogotá and in the Ferri Institute of Rome.
He died in Bogotá, on August 21, 1997. Pastrana was a conservative politician Colombia, President of Colombia in the period 1970-1974. He had been affiliated to the Conservative Party (which he would later rename as the Social Conservative Party).
He was the private secretary of the President Mariano Ospina Pérez (1949-1952)and three times a minister during the second liberal presidency of Alberto Lleras Camargo (1958-1962).
During the of Carlos Lleras Restrepo, he was Minister of Government 1966-1968, led in Congress a constitutional reform and was Colombian ambassador in Washington from 1968-1969, when he returned to campaign for the Vice-president of Worldwide Prize for Peace of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The Center brought in young minds such as Nicholas Negroponte. During his four years in office, Pastrana was cautiously progressive.
He sought to increase employment opportunities with a famous four-point strategy. He attempted to boost national savings as a way of moving away from dependency on foreign investment and cr, and he extended pensions rights for many people.
He also promoted the first national environmental legislation in Latin America.
Pastrana then took on the mantle of the "natural leader" of the Conservative party. He proved unable to hold the different factions of the party together, however, and in consequence there has only been one Conservative president since his own term in office. He died in Bogotá at the age of 73.
The end of his four year-term in office came in 1974, which also saw the end of the National Front governments.