Juan Manuel Corzo

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Corzo and the second or maternal family name is Román.
Juan Manuel Corzo
Photograph of Senator Corzo during an intervention in the 1st Commission of the Senate on 14 June 2011.
Senator Corzo in 2011.
President of the Senate
In office
20 July 2011 (2011-07-20) – 20 July 2012 (2012-07-20)
Preceded byArmando Benedetti
Succeeded byRoy Barreras
Senator of Colombia
Incumbent
Assumed office
20 July 2002 (2002-07-20)
Member of the Chamber of Representatives
In office
20 July 1998 (1998-07-20) – 20 July 2002 (2002-07-20)
ConstituencyNorth Santander
Personal details
Born
Juan Manuel Corzo Román

(1961-10-03) 3 October 1961 (age 63)
Cúcuta, North Santander, Colombia
Political partyConservative (2006–present)
Other political
affiliations		National Movement (1998–2006)
SpouseIsabel Carmenza Sanmiguel Maldonado
Children
  • Silvia Corzo Sanmiguel
  • Luis Javier Corzo Sanmiguel
Alma materSaint Thomas Aquinas University (LLB, 1986)
ProfessionLawyer
Websitewww.senadorjuanmanuelcorzo.com

Juan Manuel Corzo Román (born 3 October 1961)[1] is a Colombian lawyer and politician, currently serving as Senator of Colombia since 2002. A Conservative party politician, he was first elected to Congress as Representative for the Department of North Santander in 1998. He ran and was elected Senator of Colombia in 2002, continuing to be re-elected in 2006 and 2010; he forms part of the First Commission of the Senate.[2][3]

On 12 April 1999 Corzo was kidnapped along with the 39 other passengers of an Avianca Fokker flight between Bucaramanga and Cúcuta by a command of the National Liberation Army (ELN), a leftist terrorist guerrilla group, and was held captive for 17 months until his release in September 2000.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Juan Manuel Corzo Román". El Espectador (in Spanish). 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
  2. ^ "Juan Manuel Corzo Román: Biografía [Biography]" (in Spanish). Colombian Conservative Party. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
  3. ^ "Juan Manuel Corzo, el conciliador" [Juan Manuel Corzo, the conciliator]. Semana (in Spanish). 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
  4. ^ "El ELN Liberó a Juan M Corzo" [The ELN Freed Juan M Corzo]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 2000-09-13.
  5. ^ "Optimismo y hermetismo en diálogo con ELN" [Optimism and hermetism in talks with ELN]. BBC Mundo. 2000-07-25. Retrieved 2011-10-11.