miércoles 1 de abril de 2009
sábado 14 de marzo de 2009
Colombian President
Álvaro Uribe Vélez
Álvaro Uribe Vélez, born 4 July 1952 in Medellín is the 39th President of Colombia and is currently serving his second term in office.
Before his current role in politics Uribe was a lawyer. He studied law at the University of Antioquia and completed a management course at Harvard University
Uribe started his politics career in his home department of Antioquia. He has held office in the Medellín Public Enterprises (Empresas Públicas de Medellín) and in the Ministry of Labor and in the Civil Aeronautic. Later he held office as the mayor of Medellín in 1982, then he was Senator between 1986 and 1994 and finally Governor of Antioquia between 1995and 1997 before he was elected President of Colombia in 2002.
He was awarded the Simón Bolívar Scholarship of the British Council and was nominated Senior Associate Member at the Saint Antony's College in the University of Oxford after completing his term in office as the governor of Antioquia in 1998.
Uribe's father was killed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas during a 1983 kidnapping attempt.
After his father's death Álvaro Uribe sold most of his inherited rural properties and concentrated on his political career as a member of the Colombian Liberal Party. He served on the Medellín city council between 1984 and 1986
Alvaro Uribe Velez is married to Lina Moreno and have two sons: Tomas (Apr 19, 1.981) and Geronimo (Jul 16, 1.983).
In the 20 May 2.002 presidential election Alvaro Uribe Velez got 5.862.655. votes. (53.048%)
In the 28 May 2.006 presidential election Alvaro Uribe Velez got 7.363.421 votes. (62.20%)
The Colombian armed conflict or Colombian Civil War has existed since approximately 1964 or 1966, which was when the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and later the National Liberation Army (ELN) were founded and subsequently started their guerrilla insurgency campaigns against successive Colombian government administrations.
It originally began as a backlash produced by a previous conflict known as La Violencia, which had been triggered by the 1948 assassination of populist political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the drug trade, the drug cartels and the War on Drugs increased the intensity of the conflict and involved all of its participants.
In 2004, Uribe's political supporters amended the constitution to allow him to run for a second term, previously proscribed by the Colombian constitution, and his own decision to run for a second term was announced in late 2005. With this amendment, Uribe was re-elected on May 28, 2006 for a second presidential term (2006-2010), and became the first president to be consecutively re-elected in Colombia in over a century. He received about 62% of the vote, consisting of about 7.3 million ballots in his favor.
Lately Uribe´s supporters are planning to amend once again the constitution in order to allow him a new reelection. Uribe neither denies nor confirms his aspirations.
In my humble opinion, Colombians should listen to the words of the Father of the Patria, Simon Bolivar in the speech delivered to the Congress of Angostura on Feb 15, 1.819. In a part of that speech Bolivar said:
...”the continuity of autority in a same person frecuently has been the end of democratic governments. The repeated elections are esencial in the popular systems, because nothing is so dangerous as to allow a citizen remains a long time as governor. People get accustum to obey and he gets accustum to rule. Hence derives the usurpation and the tyranny.A just jealous is the guarantee of the republican freedom and our citizens should be affraid with excessive justice that the same magistrate, who has ruled for a long time, rules them to perpetuity...”
Horacio Idarraga Gil. Horacioidarraga_1@yahoo.es
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvaro_Uribe_Velez
lunes 2 de marzo de 2009
My family
My family.
Sun 01, Mar 09: Hi dear classmates: it is my family. Let me start by introducing myself. If you want to listen to me, please click this link:
http://voicethread.com/share/374802/
My name is Horacio Idàrraga Gil.
I was born in El Fresno, Tolima, seventy five years ago.
I came to Venezuela when I was twenty.
I used to work as a teacher at INCE. INCE is in Venezuela what SENA is in Colombia. I used to teach dress making.
I got retired in Nov 1990.
The lady in red pants, is Carmen. She married me in December 1.959.
She runs the house with iron gloves.
She turns an egg into the most delicious banquet and a piece of newspaper into the most beautifull flower ever seen.
I owe to her all what I am. All what I am is a debt I will never be able to pay.
Next to Carmen is Isabel. She is the oldest of our two daughters.
She is an ECONOMIST. She runs her own office.
Next to Isabel is Beatriz in green T-shirt. She is the youngest of our two daughters. She is a teacher. She teaches Biology.
She is Mariana`s mother.
Next to Beatriz, wearing pink T-shirt, is Doris. She is my niece. She is the wife of Arturo, the man wearing glasses and moustache.
Next to Doris is Carlos wearing black T-shirt. He is the yougest of our three children. He is a technician and works as a supervisor in Papeles Venezolanos.
Last in the group, next to Arturo is Adriana. She is Carlos`s wife. The other two ladies are neigbors and friends.
In the second picture we can see a proud grandma surrounded by our four grandchildren.
First at right is Carlos Jose. He is sixteen. He finished high school and is waiting his chance to go to the university. He wants to be an engineer.
Next to Carlos Jose is Mariana. She is fifteen and is studying 8th grade. She dreams of going to study to Massachussets Institute of Technology in USA.
Left to Carmen is Luis Carlos. He is fifteen. He dreams to emulate Luis Aparicio, Alfonso Carrasquel and David Concepciòn, the three gratest icons of Venezuelan baseball.
Last on the left is Jose Luis. He is the youngest. He is eleven. He is very, very humble. He just dreams with going to NASA and from there, to the moon.
The three boys are Carlos`s sons.
In the last picture we can see a group of siblings. They are daughters, nieces, grandchildren and the offspring of our daughters and nieces.
From right to left, they are Mafer, Mariana, Val, Daniela, Luis Carlos, Mema, Carlos Jose, Jose Luis, Isa, Beatriz, Olga, Jose Miguel and Sonia.
Now I wanto to tell you something else. I have seen in your presentations that most of you are interested in practising English. I agree with you. The only way to learn a language is using it.
I also want to practice, so if you want to contact me, my hotmail messenger is racebis and my email is isbecar@hotmail.com
My skype ID is racebis1
If you want to know a bit more and listen to some music, please clic this link: http://laidarragada.blogspot.com/
And here is a very old but very beautiful song sung by Barbra Streisand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyx2n_p9OZ8 Memories
Finally I`d like to say that I am affraid of losing this course because I don`t have acces to “Mis cursos”. I have already done what the message sent by the tutor says, but I am still banned to do the exercises.
Well friends, my best wishes to you all.
Warm hugs, Horacio Idarraga Gil.
Sun 01, Mar 09: Hi dear classmates: it is my family. Let me start by introducing myself. If you want to listen to me, please click this link:
http://voicethread.com/share/374802/
My name is Horacio Idàrraga Gil.
I was born in El Fresno, Tolima, seventy five years ago.
I came to Venezuela when I was twenty.
I used to work as a teacher at INCE. INCE is in Venezuela what SENA is in Colombia. I used to teach dress making.
I got retired in Nov 1990.
The lady in red pants, is Carmen. She married me in December 1.959.
She runs the house with iron gloves.
She turns an egg into the most delicious banquet and a piece of newspaper into the most beautifull flower ever seen.
I owe to her all what I am. All what I am is a debt I will never be able to pay.
Next to Carmen is Isabel. She is the oldest of our two daughters.
She is an ECONOMIST. She runs her own office.
Next to Isabel is Beatriz in green T-shirt. She is the youngest of our two daughters. She is a teacher. She teaches Biology.
She is Mariana`s mother.
Next to Beatriz, wearing pink T-shirt, is Doris. She is my niece. She is the wife of Arturo, the man wearing glasses and moustache.
Next to Doris is Carlos wearing black T-shirt. He is the yougest of our three children. He is a technician and works as a supervisor in Papeles Venezolanos.
Last in the group, next to Arturo is Adriana. She is Carlos`s wife. The other two ladies are neigbors and friends.
In the second picture we can see a proud grandma surrounded by our four grandchildren.
First at right is Carlos Jose. He is sixteen. He finished high school and is waiting his chance to go to the university. He wants to be an engineer.
Next to Carlos Jose is Mariana. She is fifteen and is studying 8th grade. She dreams of going to study to Massachussets Institute of Technology in USA.
Left to Carmen is Luis Carlos. He is fifteen. He dreams to emulate Luis Aparicio, Alfonso Carrasquel and David Concepciòn, the three gratest icons of Venezuelan baseball.
Last on the left is Jose Luis. He is the youngest. He is eleven. He is very, very humble. He just dreams with going to NASA and from there, to the moon.
The three boys are Carlos`s sons.
In the last picture we can see a group of siblings. They are daughters, nieces, grandchildren and the offspring of our daughters and nieces.
From right to left, they are Mafer, Mariana, Val, Daniela, Luis Carlos, Mema, Carlos Jose, Jose Luis, Isa, Beatriz, Olga, Jose Miguel and Sonia.
Now I wanto to tell you something else. I have seen in your presentations that most of you are interested in practising English. I agree with you. The only way to learn a language is using it.
I also want to practice, so if you want to contact me, my hotmail messenger is racebis and my email is isbecar@hotmail.com
My skype ID is racebis1
If you want to know a bit more and listen to some music, please clic this link: http://laidarragada.blogspot.com/
And here is a very old but very beautiful song sung by Barbra Streisand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyx2n_p9OZ8 Memories
Finally I`d like to say that I am affraid of losing this course because I don`t have acces to “Mis cursos”. I have already done what the message sent by the tutor says, but I am still banned to do the exercises.
Well friends, my best wishes to you all.
Warm hugs, Horacio Idarraga Gil.
domingo 30 de noviembre de 2008
viernes 28 de noviembre de 2008
Good bye England`s rose
Elton john Candle In The Wind ( Princess Diana's Funeral) Goodbye englands rose May you ever grow in our hearts
You were the grace that placed itself Where lives were torn apart
You called out to our country And you whispered to those in pain
Now you belong to heaven
And the stars spell out your name
And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind
Never fading with the sunset When the rain set in
And your footsteps will always fall here Along englands greenest hills
Your candles burned out long before Your legend ever will
Loveliness weve lost These empty days without your smile
This torch well always carry For our nations golden child
And even though we try The truth brings us to tears
All our words cannot express The joy you brought us through the years And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind
Never fading with the sunset When the rain set in
And your footsteps will always fall here Along englands greenest hills
Your candles burned our long before Your legend ever will
Goodbye englands rose May you ever grow in our hearts
You were the grace that placed itself Where lives were torn apart
Goodbye englands rose From a country lost without your soul
Wholl miss the wings of your compassion More than youll ever know
And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind
Never fading with the sunset When the rain set in
And you footsteps will always fall here Along englands greenest hills
Your candles burned out long before Your legend ever will
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