Biography
Alfredo Vázquez Carrizosa Alfredo Vazquez Carrizosa (9 February 1909 – 19 December 2001) was a Colombian lawyer, politician and diplomat, born in Bogotá, Cundinamarca. He was the foreign minister of Colombia from 1970 to 1974. Carrizosa was the son of General Alfredo Vasquez Cobo, the Conservative Party's candidate for President of the Republic in 1930. He did his secondary and higher education in Belgium and graduated as a lawyer at the Catholic University of Leuven. He was linked during the decade from 1930 to the International Labour Organization, becoming the Colombian delegate during World War II, when its offices were relocated to Canada. On his return to Colombia, he was elected to the House of Representatives for Cundinamarca, but steered clear of the Conservative Party's internal divisions. He was uninvolved...
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