Lleras Camargo

[ ye-rahs kah-mahr-gaw ]

noun

1. Al·ber·to [ahl-, ver, -taw], 1906–89, Colombian journalist, writer, and political leader: president 1945–46, 1958–62.

Example Sentences

She says she was impressed above all by the Colombian president, Alberto Lleras Camargo, whom she finds “Nordic in his sadness.”

From New York Times

Under the Front's first President, Alberto Lleras Camargo, a Liberal widely respected by all factions, the arrangement seemed to be working well enough.

From Time Magazine Archive

Brazil's Janio Quadros and Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo are pushing comprehensive reform and agrarian-development laws through their Congress.

From Time Magazine Archive

They voted under a very special set of ground rules devised by Laureano G�mez and Liberal Leader Alberto Lleras Camargo.

From Time Magazine Archive

The prestigious Lleras Camargo slate of Liberals won all of that party's 50% share of 80 Senate and 148 Chamber of Deputies seats.

From Time Magazine Archive