The administration of President Andrés Pastrana Arango, when it took office on 7 August 1998, faced an economy in crisis, with the difficult internal security situation and global economic turbulence additionally inhibiting confidence.

On August 7, 1998, Andrés Pastrana was sworn in as the President of Colombia.

With the hope of negotiating a peace settlement, on 7 November 1998, President Andrés Pastrana granted FARC-EP a safe haven meant to serve as a confidence building measure, centered around the San Vicente del Caguán settlement.

The administration of President Andrés Pastrana had failed for four years to secure a ceasefire, and Álvaro Uribe began to be seen as the candidate who may provide a viable security program.

Plan Colombia can also refer to a wider aid initiative originally proposed by Colombian President Andrés Pastrana Arango, which included U. S. military / counter-narcotics aid, but was not limited to it.

He has hosted a wide range of Colombian political leaders in his Washington office including current President Álvaro Uribe and former President Andrés Pastrana.

He continued to participate as a highly visible negotiator during the failed 1998 – 2002 FARC-Government peace process ( 1999 – 2002 ) held under Conservative President Andrés Pastrana.

Bill Clinton, Andrés Pastrana ( center ) and Chelsea Clinton in Cartagena, Colombia, August 30, 2000.

US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld meeting with Andrés Pastrana.

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The ELN did not participate in the peace negotiations conducted between the Colombian government of President Andrés Pastrana Arango ( 1998 – 2002 ) and the FARC ; yet did participate in an exploratory conference about possibly participating in peace negotiations.

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Barco was appointed Foreign Minister of Colombia by President Álvaro Uribe in August 2002 and remained in that post until July 2006, when she was appointed Ambassador to the United States, replacing former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana Arango in Washington, D. C ..

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His second son, Andrés Pastrana Arango eventually became president of Colombia 1998 to 2002.

** Andrés Iniesta ( born 1984 ), football player for FC Barcelona

Sons: Juan Alvaro Hein, born 9 January 1943 ; Andrés Humberto Hein, born 30 December 1943.

Varela was born in 1946 in Santiago in Chile, the son of Corina María Elena García-Tapia and Raúl Andrés Varela-Rodríguez.

* Andrés Cantor ( born 1962 ), Spanish-language soccer announcer

** Andrés de Olmos, Spanish grammarian ( born c. 1485 )

Hussey was born Olivia Osuna in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Joy Alma ( née Hussey ), a British legal secretary and Andrés Osuna ( aka Osvaldo Ribó ), an Argentine tango singer, who divorced when Olivia was two.

Famous Spaniards like the cinema directors Pedro Almodóvar and José Luis Cuerda, painters Antonio López and his uncle Antonio López Torres, footballer Andrés Iniesta, music band Angelus Apatrida and actress Sara Montiel were born in La Mancha.

Díaz Ordaz was born in San Andrés Chalchícomula ( nowadays Ciudad Serdán, Puebla ).

Andrés García ( born May 24, 1941 in La Vega, Dominican Republic ) is a Dominican-born Mexican actor.

Andrés Montañez ( born May 7, 1942 ), better known as Andy Montañez, is a salsa singer from Puerto Rico.

Carlos Andrés Pérez was born at the hacienda La Argentina, on the Venezuelan-Colombian border near the town of Rubio, Táchira state, the 11th of 12 children in a middle-class family.

Andrés Eloy Blanco Perez ( born April 11, 1984, in Caracas, Venezuela ) is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder for the Philadelphia Phillies organization.

Orocovis is sometimes called " The Musical Capital of Puerto Rico " because many major Puerto Rican performers were either born or raised in the town, particularly bandleader Bobby Valentín, folk singer Andrés Jiménez, merengue singer Manny Manuel, and the Colón-Zayas family of musicians, which includes Emma ( singer, multi-instrumentalist ) and Edwin ( a world renowned cuatro player ).

* Héctor Andrés Negroni ( born 1938 )-first Puerto Rican graduate of the United States Air Force Academy

Andrés Manuel López Obrador ( born November 13, 1953 ), also known as AMLO or El Peje, is a Mexican politician who held the position of Head of Government of the Federal District from 2000 to 2005, before resigning in July 2005 to contend the 2006 presidential election, representing the Coalition for the Good of All, a coalition led by the Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ) that includes the Convergence party and the Labor Party.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador was born in Macuspana, in the southern state of Tabasco, in 1953.

Andrés José Padovani Galarraga (; born June 18, 1961 ) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the Montreal Expos (– and ), St. Louis Cardinals (), Colorado Rockies (–), Atlanta Braves (-), Texas Rangers (), San Francisco Giants ( 2001 and ) and Anaheim Angels ().

* Carlos Andrés García ( born 1979 ), Uruguayan footballer

There is at least one instance of use as a single name, the former Norwegian rap artist Diaz, who was born to a Spanish father and Norwegian mother ; his birth name was " Andrés Rafael Díaz ".

Andrés Duany ( born September 7, 1949 ) is an American architect and urban planner.

* Andrés Oppenheimer ( born 1951 ), Argentine author and journalist known for his analysis of Latin American politics

Julio Andrés Arca ( born 31 January 1981 in Quilmes ) is an Argentine footballer, he currently plays for Middlesbrough.

Andrés del Río studied analytical chemistry and metallurgy in Spain, where he was born.