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Alejandro Char
Alejandro Char Chaljub (born 16 April 1966), commonly known as Álex Char, is a Colombian politician. He served two terms as Mayor of Barranquilla from 2008 to 2011 and 2016 to 2019. A civil engineer and member of the Radical Change Party, he was councilor for the Liberal Party in 1997 and in 2000 ran for the Governorship of the Department of Atlántico. Initial ballot results gave victory to his contender Ventura Díaz Mejía, but after a lengthy and often criticized process, the Administrative Supreme Court of Colombia reviewed the election results and found Char to be rightful winner of the race and allowed him to serve the remaining period of his term in 2003. In 2007 he was elected Mayor or Barranquilla with 221,625 votes equivalent to 58.38% of the total vote, the biggest margin of votes in the Mayoral election history of Barranquilla, and according to an Invamer/Gallup poll, Char had a 75% approval rating in April 2008, the best ranked mayor of Colombia, a statistic th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barranquilla
Barranquilla () is the capital district of Atlántico Department in Colombia. It is located near the Caribbean Sea and is the largest city and third port in the Caribbean Coast region; as of 2018 it had a population of 1,206,319, making it Colombia's fourth-most populous city after Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali. Barranquilla lies strategically next to the delta of the Magdalena River, (originally before rapid urban growth) from its mouth at the Caribbean Sea, serving as a port for river and maritime transportation within Colombia. It is also the main economic center of Atlántico department in Colombia. The city is the core of the Metropolitan Area of Barranquilla, with a population of over 2 million, which also includes the municipalities of Soledad, Galapa, Malambo, and Puerto Colombia. Barranquilla was legally established as a town on April 7, 1813, although it dates from at least 1629. It grew into an important port, serving as a haven for immigrants from Europe, espe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Espectador
''El Espectador'' (meaning "The Spectator") is a newspaper with national circulation within Colombia, founded by Fidel Cano Gutiérrez on 22 March 1887 in Medellín and published since 1915 in Bogotá. It changed from a daily to a weekly edition in 2001, following a financial crisis, and became a daily again on 11 May 2008, a comeback which had been long rumoured, in tabloid format (28 x 39.5 cm). From 1997 to 2011 its main shareholder was Julio Mario Santo Domingo. It is the oldest newspaper in Colombia. Since its first issue its motto has been "El Espectador will work for the good of the country with liberal criteria and for the good of the liberal principles with patriotic criteria". It was initially published twice a week, 500 issues each. It defined itself as a "political, literary, news and industrial newspaper". Years later it became a daily and in 2001 became a weekly. Since then, the paper uses the slogan "El Espectador. Opinion is news", implying it now focuses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aída Merlano Rebolledo
''Aída'' is a Spanish sitcom that aired on Telecinco from 16 January 2005 to 8 June 2014. Set in Madrid, it is a spin off of the sitcom ''7 Vidas'', on which Aída was a recurring character. It was produced by Globomedia. The show stars Carmen Machi as Aída García, a working single mother with two teenage children who is forced to move in with her mother Eugenia, played by Marisol Ayuso, and brother Luisma, played by Paco León, to make ends meet. The show received favorable criticism and was the most-viewed show in Spain from 2007 until the end of its run. It has also received several awards, including the Ondas Award for Best Spanish Sitcom. The Polish remake of the series began airing in March 2012 on the TVP2 channel. Synopsis The series begins when Aída García, a divorced, ex-alcoholic and uneducated cleaning worker, returns to her lifelong working-class neighborhood, Esperanza Sur, when her recently deceased father leaves her the family home as an inheritance. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revista Semana
''Semana'' (Spanish: ''Week'') is a weekly magazine in Colombia. History ''Semana'' was founded in 1946 by Alberto Lleras Camargo (who would become president of Colombia in 1958) and that folded in 1961. It was relaunched by journalist Felipe López Caballero in 1983. Development , the person who restarted the magazine, took two earlier Colombian magazines as models. One was Camargo's ''Semana''; the other was '' :es:Alternativa'', a left-wing weekly published by Enrique Santos and Gabriel García Márquez. The foreign magazines that he strove to imitate were ''Time'' and '' Newsweek''. Recalling the prestige that had been enjoyed by Lleras's magazine, López asked for, and was given, permission to use the same name. The first issue came out on 12 May 12 1982. Its cover story was about terrorism. Some of ''Semana''s most important reporting has been about Pablo Escobar, the drug trafficking kingpin. In the 1980s, López was one of the two "big whistleblowers and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Central American And Caribbean Games
The 23rd Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Barranquilla, Colombia. Asamblea ODECABE, Islas Caimán' (translation: "CASCO Assembly, Cayman Islands"). Published by CACSO on 2012-10-27; retrieved 2012-11-13. Bidding process Quetzaltenango was the only city to meet CACSO's January 2012 deadline to bid for the Games, and on October 29, 2012 it was named the host city. Guatemala last hosted the Games in 1950 (in Guatemala City); Central America last hosted in 2002 (in San Salvador, El Salvador). Panajachel would be the venue for sailing, open water swimming and triathlon. Quetzaltenango was officially stripped from its hosting rights in May 2014. Meanwhile, the Colombian City of Santiago de Cali has sent a formal request to the CACSO committee to host the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games (due to the success of the 2013 World Games) in case that Quetzaltenango was unable to meet with the event's logistics. In addition, sports venues in Santiago de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titanes De Barranquilla
Titanes de Barranquilla (in English: Titans of Barranquilla) is a Colombian professional basketball team based in Barranquilla. The team plays in the Baloncesto Profesional Colombiano, where it has won the championship four times since the establishment of the team in 2018. History During the 1990s, there was a professional team in the city of Barranquilla, named the Caimanes de Barranquilla. They played in the Baloncesto Profesional Colombiano and won three Colombian national championships (in 1995, 1997 and 1998). In 2003, the team was dissolved which marked the beginning of a 15-year drought of professional basketball in Barranquilla. In June 2018, the Titanes de Barranquilla were founded by a group of businessmen in cooperation with the city's Mayor's Office. The team had its debut in October 2018 against the Warrios de San Andrés at the Arena Deportiva Elías Chegwin in Barranquilla, led by Tomás Díaz, coach of the national team and multiple champion of the Colombian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Information Technologies And Communications
Ministry for the Information and Communications Technologies ( es, Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, abbreviated ''MinTIC''), is the ministries of Colombia, national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia responsible for overseeing the information and communication technologies, telecommunications and broadcasting industries in Colombia. History Former Ministry of Telecommunications, adopted its new name by decree 1341 of 2009. The current Minister is Sylvia Constaín, appointed by Colombia's president Iván Duque Márquez, Ivan Duque. References Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications (Colombia), Communications in Colombia Ministries established in 2009 Communications ministries {{Telecomm-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Mines And Energy (Colombia)
The Ministry of Mines and Energy ( es, Ministerio de Minas y Energía) is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia that oversees the regulation of the mining and mineral industry and the electricity sector in Colombia, it is similar in its duties to other energy ministries In physics, energy (from Ancient Greek: ἐνέργεια, ''enérgeia'', “activity”) is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat ... of other countries. List of Ministers References Ministries established in 1974 Mining ministries, Colombia Energy ministries, Colombia Mining in Colombia Energy in Colombia {{Energy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior Barranquilla
Junior or Juniors may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * ''Junior'' (Junior Mance album), 1959 * ''Junior'' (Röyksopp album), 2009 * ''Junior'' (Kaki King album), 2010 * ''Junior'' (LaFontaines album), 2019 Films * ''Junior'' (1994 film), an American film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger * ''Junior'' (2008 film), a documentary about Quebec junior league ice hockey * ''Juniors'' (film), a 2003 Telugu film Characters * Junior, the main protagonist in ''Storks'' * Junior Soprano, the present-day patriarch on the TV show ''The Sopranos'' * Junior, son of the Gorgs in the ''Fraggle Rock'' television series * Junior, title character of the film '' Problem Child'' * Jr. (''Xenosaga''), short for Gaignun Kukai, Jr., a character in the ''Xenosaga'' series * Junior Asparagus, in the children's show ''VeggieTales'' * Junior, a character from ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' * Junior, Mr. Conductor's cousin in the film ''Thomas and the Magic Railroad''. Other * ''Junior'' (novel), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Char Navas
David Char Navas is a Colombian politician who served as Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia from 2002 to 2006 and as Senator of Colombia from 2006 to 2008. He was forced to resign to his seat in the Senate due to controversies surrounding two incidents for which he was being investigated, the first related to a city contract that his company Los Ángeles Ltd signed with the then Mayor of Barranquilla Bernardo Hoyos Montoya; the second came to surface after his name appeared in a seized computer of Jorge 40, a paramilitary leader of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia. Family David comes from a well established and influential, Syrian-Arab-Colombian family, he is the son of Habib Char Abdala and Vivian Navas. He is the nephew of Fuad Char Abdala, and cousin of Arturo and Alejandro Char Chaljub, all politicians from the Atlántico Department. His family are the majority shareholders of the Junior Barranquilla, the city's foremost soccer team, and foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, In recognized minority languages of Portugal: :* mwl, República Pertuesa is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, its mainland west and south border with the North Atlantic Ocean and in the north and east, the Portugal-Spain border, constitutes the longest uninterrupted border-line in the European Union. Its archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. On the mainland, Alentejo region occupies the biggest area but is one of the least densely populated regions of Europe. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population, being also the main spot for tourists alongside Porto, the Algarve and Madeira. One of the oldest countries in Europe, its territory has been continuously settled and fought over since prehistoric tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Commerce, Industry And Tourism
The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism ( es, Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo) or MCIT, is the national executive ministry of the Government of Colombia The Government of Colombia is a republic with separation of powers into executive, judicial and legislative branches. Its legislature has a congress, its judiciary has a supreme court, and its executive branch has a president. The citi ... concerned with promoting economic growth though trade, tourism and industrial growth. Ministers References Economy of Colombia Tourism in Colombia Colombia, Commerce, Industry and Tourism Colombia, Commerce, Industry and Tourism 2002 establishments in Colombia Industry in Colombia {{Colombia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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