Antonio Navarro Wolff

Antonio Navarro Wolff
Senator of Colombia
In office
20 July 2014 – 20 July 2018
In office
20 July 2002 – 20 July 2006
Governor of Nariño
In office
1 January 2008 – 1 January 2012
Preceded byEduardo Zúñiga Erazo
Succeeded byRaúl Delgado Guerrero
Member of the Chamber of Representatives for Bogota
In office
20 July 1998 – 20 July 2002
Mayor of Pasto
In office
1 January 1995 – 1 January 1998
Preceded byEduardo Romo Rosero
Co-President of the Constituent Assembly of Colombia
In office
15 January 1991 – 4 July 1991
Succeeded byJimmy Pedreros Narváez
Minister of Health of Colombia
In office
7 August 1990 – 26 October 1991
PresidentCésar Gaviria
Preceded byEduardo Díaz Uribe
Succeeded byCamilo González Posso
Personal details
Born
Antonio José Navarro Wolff

(1948-07-09) 9 July 1948 (age 76)
Pasto, Nariño, Colombia
Political partyAlternative Democratic Pole
Green Party (Since 2015)
Other political
affiliations
M-19 Democratic Alliance
(1990-2005)
Spouse(s)Amparo Erazo (-divorced)
Marcela Bustamante Morón (1994-present)
ChildrenCamilo Navarro Erazo
Gabriel Navarro Bustamante
Alejandro Navarro Bustamante
Alma materUniversity of Valle (BSE, 1972)
Loughborough University (MIE, 1975)
ProfessionEngineer
Military service
AllegianceM-19
Years of service1980-1990
RankCommandant
Battles/warsColombian conflict

Antonio José Navarro Wolff (born 9 July 1948) is an engineer, a former combatant and a Colombian politician.

Navarro used to be a former Commandant and leader of the 19th of April Movement (M-19), a former guerrilla movement that operated in Colombia in the 1970s and 1980s. After the demobilization through a peace agreement of the M-19, Navarro and others formed the M-19 Democratic Alliance, a political party of which Navarro became a leader of entering mainstream politics in Colombia. In 1990 he ran as a M-19 political candidate during the Colombian presidential elections finishing third and receiving 12.48% of the votes; he ran again unsuccessfully in the 1994 presidential election, and attempted to run for the 2006 presidential elections but lost the candidacy of his party during the primaries. In 1991 he was elected to the National Constituent Assembly, of which became Co-President along with Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and Horacio Serpa Uribe; it was this Assembly that drafted the Colombian Constitution of 1991 which remains the supreme law of the country.

Navarro has also served in Congress, being elected to serve both in the Chamber from 1998 to 2002, and the Senate from 2002 to 2006 and again since 2014; and elected Mayor of Pasto serving from 1995 to 1998, and Governor of Nariño from 2008 to 2012.