Bolívar was elected first, president of Gran Colombia and Santander, vice president.

* September 7, 1821 – The Republic of Gran Colombia ( a federation covering much of present day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador ) is established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.

* September 7 – The Republic of Gran Colombia ( a federation covering much of present day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador ) is established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.

The president initiates covert operations within Colombia and a step-up of operations against aircraft believed to be distributing narcotics.

Following the triumph over the Spanish Monarchy, Bolívar participated in the foundation of the first union of independent nations in Hispanic-America, a republic, which was named Gran Colombia, of which he was president from 1819 to 1830.

On September 7, 1821 the Gran Colombia ( a state covering much of modern Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, northern Peru, and northwest of Brazil ) was created, with Bolívar as president and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.

María Antonia became Bolívar's agent to deal with his properties while he served as president of Gran Colombia and she was an executrix of his will.

The government is in charge of creating and developing politics intended to Colombia the governors of the Departments of Colombia are elected through popular vote to represent the president and the executive branch of government at a provincial level.

Laura Chinchilla, the president of Costa Rica ( 2010 – 2014 ) stated -" It must be approached very rigorously based on empiric evidence and the experiences other countries have had when boarding widely the concept of legalization [...]" after a meeting with José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, regarding the fight against hard drug smuggling from Colombia to the USA.

This is the case for Colombia, whose anthem was composed by a former president and poet Rafael Nuñez, who also wrote the ancient constitution.

The office of president was established upon the ratification of the Constitution of 1819, by the Congress of Angostura, convened in December 1819, when Colombia was part of " la Gran Colombia ".

The current president of the Republic of Colombia is Juan Manuel Santos, who took office on 7 August 2010.

Colombian Constitution of 1991 Article 191: states that the president must be a natural born citizen of Colombia and at least 30 years of age.

These include things such as supplying bodyguards to the Afghan president Hamid Karzai and piloting reconnaissance airplanes and helicopters as a part of Plan Colombia.

While Bolívar was engaged in military campaigns in Peru, he was unable to carry on his duties as president of Gran Colombia.

In 1830, Páez declared Venezuela independent from Gran Colombia and became president.

* 1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.

In 1945, the civilian president, Juan José Arévalo, was elected, and served until 1951.

However, the liberal PLH was unable to unite around a single candidate and split into two dissident groups, one supporting former president Policarpo Bonilla, the other advancing the candidacy of Juan Angel Arias.

The PNH nominated Carías's choice for president — Juan Manuel Gálvez, who had been minister of war since 1933.

On 16 September 1974 about forty Montoneros bombs exploded throughout Argentina, targeting foreign companies and also ceremonies commemorating the military revolt which had ended Juan Perón's first term as president.

The leader of this revolt, Gen. José María Moncada, declared that he supported the claim of exiled Liberal vice-president Juan Bautista Sacasa, who arrived in Puerto Cabezas in December, declaring himself president of a " constitutional " government.

incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.

After President Juan Bautista Gil was assassinated in 1877, Caballero used his power as army commander to guarantee Bareiro's election as president in 1878.

Frustration provoked an aborted Liberal revolt in 1891 that produced changes in 1893, when war minister General Juan B. Egusquiza overthrew Caballero's chosen president, Juan G. González.

Méndez Fleitas was unpopular with Colorado Party stalwarts and the army, who feared that he was trying to build a following as did his hero, Juan Domingo Perón, Argentina's president from 1946 to 1955.

In May 1993, Colorado Party candidate Juan Carlos Wasmosy was elected as Paraguay's first civilian president in almost 40 years in what international observers deemed fair and free elections.

This is the result of the unification of the opposition: Vice-President Doy Laurel was elected as the president of the Nacionalista Party, with former Labor Secretary and Assemblyman Blas Ople emerged as the Executive Vice-President and former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile as the Secretary-General

Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos used Twitter to welcome the move as a " necessary, if insufficient, step in the right direction ".

The Colorados favored the exiled Argentinian liberal Unitarios, many of whom had taken refuge in Montevideo, while the Blanco president Manuel Oribe was a close friend of the Argentine governor Juan Manuel de Rosas.

* February 24 – Juan Perón is elected president of Argentina.

** Juan Bosch takes office as the 41st president of the Dominican Republic.

** Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish International Olympic Committee president ( d. 2010 )

* June 28 – In Argentina, a junta deposes president Arturo Umberto Illia in a coup, and appoints General Juan Carlos Onganía to lead.

Miners and students join troops to support president Juan Jose Torres, but eventually Hugo Banzer takes over.

When the payment was not forthcoming from president Anastasio Bustamante, the king sent a fleet under Rear Admiral Charles Baudin to declare a blockade of all Mexican ports from Yucatán to the Rio Grande, to bombard the Mexican fortress of San Juan de Ulúa, and to seize the port of Veracruz.

Accompanying Don Juan, however, were eight shorts of musical performances, mostly classical, as well as a four-minute filmed introduction by Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, all with live-recorded sound.

San Juan County has not supported a Democrat for president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936.

Two children were born of this marriage: his eldest child and daughter, Maria Teresa Samaranch Salisachs ( born 1956 ), has been president of the Spanish Federation of Sports on Ice since 2005, while his youngest child and son, Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs ( born 1959 ), has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2001.

In 1886, José Manuel Balmaceda was elected president.

However, Sierra made efforts to perpetuate himself in office after refusing to step down after a new president was elected in 1902 and would be overthrown by Manuel Bonilla in 1903.

The revolutionaries, headed by former president Manuel Bonilla, and the government agreed to a cease-fire and the installation of a provisional president who would be selected by the United States mediator, Thomas Dawson.

On 28 June 2009, in the context of a constitutional crisis, the military, acting on orders of the Supreme Court of Justice, arrested the president, Manuel Zelaya after which they forcibly removed elected President Zelaya from Honduras.

In 1936, Germany and Fascist Italy supported Spanish Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, while the Soviets supported the partially socialist-led Second Spanish Republic under the leadership of president Manuel Azaña.

* 1935 – Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines.

After a period of transitional government, São Tomé and Príncipe achieved independence on July 12, 1975, choosing as its first president the MLSTP Secretary General Manuel Pinto da Costa.

" According to the National Security Archive, Oliver North had been in contact with Manuel Noriega, the US-backed president of Panama.

The Colorados favored the exiled Argentinian liberal Unitarios, many of whom had taken refuge in Montevideo while the Blanco president Manuel Oribe was a close friend of the Argentinian ruler Manuel de Rosas.

Winnie secured fifth place on the ANC's electoral list for the 2009 general election, behind party president and current President of South Africa Jacob Zuma, former President of South Africa Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa Baleka Mbete, and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel.

* 2009 Honduras coup d ' état – The armed forces of the country entered the president's residence and threw president Manuel Zelaya

* March 5 – Manuel de Arriaga, first president of Portugal ( b. 1840 )

* February 5 – Manuel Fraga becomes the president of Galicia, Spain.

Asked for comment on De la Madrid's statements, Senator Manuel Bartlett, who was the president of the Federal Electoral Commission ( Comisión Federal Electoral ) during the de la Madrid administration, declared Salinas won the election albeit with the smallest margin of any PRI candidate before him.

The present mayor is Manuel Rodrigo Martins ( Social Democrat ) and the president of the Municipal Assembly is Domingos Duarte Lima ( Social Democrat ).

The 2009 meeting participants in Greece included: Greek prime minister Kostas Karamanlis ; Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen ; Sweden foreign minister Carl Bildt ; United States Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg ; U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ; World Bank president Robert Zoellick ; European Commission head José Manuel Barroso ; Queen Sofia of Spain ; and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

He also has been put forward as the possible candidate for replacing José Manuel Barroso as the president of the European Commission by a coalition of greens, socialists and liberals.

The new Cuban president, Manuel Urrutia Lleó, took steps to close the casinos.