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Álvaro Uribe Vélez is a Colombian politician and lawyer who was the 40th President of Colombia from 2002 to 2010. He has been involved in politics since the 1980s, and served as Mayor of Medellín from 1982 to 1984. Uribe was elected President in 2002, and was re-elected in 2006. He was the first president to be re-elected since 1978.