Bogota, 22 oct (EFE).-Angelino Garzón, an exsindicalista who became the Vice President of Colombia as a running mate of the current President, Juan Manuel Santos, announced today that it suffers from prostate cancer, a diagnosis that joins the infarction and cerebral ischemia that has suffered since he assumed the post in 2010.

Garzon, an exsindicalista next to 66 years, announced Monday that suffers from prostate cancer, the same disease that this month forced President Santos to go through the operating room.

losses of health of the Vice President, who has served as Minister, Governor and diplomat, are not new.

two days of being sworn in, in August 2010, and in the middle of talks to restore diplomatic relations with Venezuela, Garzon suffered a heart attack, which managed to recover satisfactorily after going to the operating room for emergency.

< p> But his health returned to be concern in last June, when he was admitted to a clinic for a suspected infection, after which suffered a cerebral ischemia that held more than one week in coma and was incapacitated their functions until recently more than two weeks, when Santos was also operated successfully for cancer of the prostate.

born in 1946 in Buga, a city in the Valle del Cauca (southwest), Garzon was a member of the National Constituent Assembly in 1991, Minister of labour and Social Security (2000-2002), Governor of his Department (2004-2007) and Ambassador of Colombia to the United Nations, in Geneva.

Social Communicator, specializing in administrative law and Labour Relations Branch, began his political career as a member of the Executive Committee of the Colombian Communist Party and then as Vice President of the Patriotic Union (UP), the left-wing party created in the 1980s and whose main leaders were murdered.

after resigning his post in this training by internal differences joined to democratic action M-19, founded on April 12, 1990 after the demobilization of the then group guerrilla.

Garzon was an active trade unionist, Secretary general of organizations such as the National Federation of workers at the service of the State (Fenaltrase) and the Trade Union Confederation of workers of Colombia (CSTC), among others, although it was harshly criticized by sectors of the left for his approach to been – current supporting former President Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010)-.

Santos, elected to the presidential period 2010-2014, chose to Garzon as a formula to consider him ’a champion of human rights, the defence of the workers and the empowerment of the regions’.

in Oktober 2011, Garzón wurde als Kandidat für die Generaldirektion für die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation (ILO), der kolumbianischen Regierung von Zahlen, die auf Reisen im Ausland auf der Suche nach Unterstützung, aber auch schließlich war der Gewinner der britischen Guy Ryder, denen es gelungen, den chilenischen Juan Somavia ist. postuliert

die heutige Ankündigung wiederbelebt Besorgnis über die körperliche und geistige Fähigkeit der Garzón, so dass gegebenenfalls ersetzen vorübergehend oder endgültig zu Präsident Santos, 61 Jahre.

der Präsident des Senats, die offiziellen Roy Barrieren vor drei Wochen fragte er Garzon, dass er geprüft würden durch eine medizinische Kommission ihres Staates von Gesundheit.

Obwohl Garzon erhielt am 4. Oktober vor diesem Ausschuss, bestehend aus sechs Ärzte, nicht vereinbart, die Anerkennung mit der Begründung, sein Verhalten “einen Coup für die Demokratie” konstituiert.

die Kolumbianischen Verfassung bedeutet, dass wenn aus irgendeinem Grund oder stirbt der Vizepräsident tritt zurück, wird seinen Posten durch, die in eine Dreiergruppe, die an dem Präsidenten des Kongresses. EFE präsentieren gewählt wird angenommen werden

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