Shortly after taking office, President Sarkozy began negotiations with Colombian president Álvaro Uribe and the left-wing guerrilla FARC, regarding the release of hostages held by the rebel group, especially Franco-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt.

* Álvaro Obregón, President of Mexico 1920-24.

President Álvaro Obregón was awarded Japan's Order of the Chrysanthemum at a special ceremony in Mexico City.

* 1952 – Álvaro Uribe, Colombian politician, 39th President of Colombia

Former President Álvaro Uribe intensified military operations against the FARC-EP, seeking to defeat them.

At 8 months old, the baby was removed from the area and Rojas didn't hear of the boy again until 31 December, when she heard Colombian President Álvaro Uribe say on the radio that the child was no longer with her captors.

Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, who had tense relations with Chavez, thanked the socialist leader and called for the release of all hostages.

' Timochenko ' announced the new commander in chief is ' Alfonso Cano ' After speculations in several national and international media about the ' softening up ' of the FARC and the announcement of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe that several FARC leaders were ready to surrender and free their captives, the secretariat of the FARC sent out a communiqué emphasizing the death of their founder would not change their approach towards the captives or the humanitarian agreement.

This followed the resolution of the 2010 Colombia – Venezuela diplomatic crisis which erupted over outgoing President Álvaro Uribe's allegations of active Venezuelan support for FARC.

According to the Colombian government, FARC-EP had an estimated 6, 000 – 8, 000 members in 2008, down from 16, 000 in 2001, having lost much of their fighting force since President Álvaro Uribe took office in 2002.

However, after the failure of the peace process and the activation of Plan Colombia, Álvaro Uribe Vélez was elected President in 2002, starting a massive attack on terrorist groups, with cooperation from civil population, foreign aid and legal armed forces.

* Álvaro Uribe is elected President of Colombia in 2002, the first political independent to do so in more than a century and a half.

* June 15 – Álvaro Colom Caballeros, Current President of Guatemala

* July 17 – Álvaro Obregón, President of Mexico ( assassinated ) ( b. 1880 )

* Explosions went off near the parliament building as Colombia's President Álvaro Uribe was being sworn in, killing at least 10 people.

In 2003, President Álvaro Uribe came to the region and listened to the issues of the townspeople for 12 hours.

Pelosi publicly scolded Colombian President Álvaro Uribe during Uribe's May 2007 state trip to America.

In 2008, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe offered him Colombian citizenship because of his efforts towards peace in Colombia, including his participation in two concerts in 2008.

President Álvaro Uribe has offered 1, 000, 000, 000 pesos ( around 350, 000 euros, or 500, 000 USD ) for any information regarding the location of the persons responsible for her death.

Álvaro Uribe Vélez (; born 4 July 1952 ) is a Colombian politician who served as the 39th President of Colombia from 2002 to 2010.

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.

However, the Morales administrations ' policies are not always thought of as socialist, instead being referred to as " Andean and Amazonian capitalism " by Vice President Álvaro García Linera.

Álvaro Enrique Arzú Yrigoyen ( born March 14, 1946, in Guatemala City ) was the 32nd President of Guatemala from January 14, 1996 until January 14, 2000.

The panel included the outgoing Colombian President Álvaro Uribe as the Vice-chair, and representatives from Turkey and Israel.

Ongoing economic problems facing President Uribe range from reforming the pension system to reducing high unemployment, and to achieving congressional passage of a fiscal transfers reform.

President Uribe has vowed to pave more than 2, 500 kilometers of roads during his administration, and about 5, 000 kilometers of new secondary roads were being built in the 2003 – 6 period.

With such conflicting perspectives, it can be argued that a certain polarization between both supporters and opponents of President Uribe seems to be forming both inside and outside the country.

Juan Manuel Santos, the current President of Colombia, has followed a middle path by recognizing in 2011 that there is an " armed conflict " in Colombia although his predecessor, Alvaro Uribe, strongly disagreed.

Former President Uribe has criticized Santos for seeking peace " at any cost " and rejected the idea of holding talks .< Ref > http :// www. aljazeera. com / news / americas / 2012 / 08 / 20128280155953340. html </ ref > Telesur reported that FARC and the Colombian government had signed a preliminary agreement in Havana the same day.

Uribe was elected President of Colombia in the first round of the 26 May 2002 elections with 53 % of the popular vote.

With the election of independent President of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe Vélez as president the Liberal party reached its greatest crisis ever.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

President Kennedy has indicated his dissatisfaction with its performance.

much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.

South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.

`` The U.S. President has shown once again that the United States needs the fanning of the West Berlin crisis to justify the armaments race.

President Kennedy has urged a peace race on disarmament that might be called `` Operation Survival '' which has many facets.

Certainly it isn't making the President happy, and he has been doing his apologetic best to explain how the budget got into its unbalanced condition, how he intends to economize wherever he can and how he hopes to do better next year.

In the Presidential box someone leaned over the balustrade and yelled: `` He has shot the President ''!!

As the President has said, `` only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain that they will never be employed ''.

The President of the United States, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of Congress, has issued a proclamation each year since 1933 declaring May 22nd to be National Maritime Day.

You can see it, for example, in the extensive efforts President Kennedy has made to enlist solid bipartisan support for his actions toward both Cuba and Laos ; ;

The appointment of Gilbert B. Devey as General Manager of VecTrol Engineering, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, a leading manufacturer of thyratron and silicon controlled rectifier electrical controls, has been announced by David B. Peck, Vice President, Special Products.

President Kennedy has asked that we become a physically fit nation.

William Walton, a writer-turned-painter, has been a long-time friend of the President.

`` Washington '', President Kennedy has been heard to remark ironically, `` is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm ''.

Ever since the fire of 1812 destroyed the beautiful furniture assembled by President Thomas Jefferson, the White House has collected a hodgepodge of period pieces, few of them authentic or aesthetic.

Their affection for their college home has even caused President Dickey to comment on this `` place loyalty '' as something rather specially Hanoverian.

The President has also called upon the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts `` in the development of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local communities in their efforts to cope with the problem.

Noting that President Kennedy has handed the Defense Department the major responsibility for the nation's civil defense program, Mr. Hawksley said the federal government would pay half the salary of a full-time local director.

And the election of President Kennedy has attracted new attention to the ethical climate of his home state.

Moreover, the President is meeting the Soviet leader at a time when the Administration has still not decided on the scope of America's firm foreign policy commitments.

The President of the United States has said: `` We will never negotiate out of fear, and we will never fear to negotiate ''.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.