Rafael Pardo Rueda
{{Short description|Colombian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Rafael Pardo Rueda
| image = File:Rafael Pardo R.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Pardo in 2016
| office = Minister of Labour
| term_start = 10 November 2011
| term_end = 7 August 2018
| president = Juan Manuel Santos
| predecessor = Position established
| successor = Alicia Arango
| office2 = Acting Mayor of Bogotá
| term_start2 = 19 March 2014
| term_end2 = 21 April 2014
| predecessor2 = Gustavo Petro
| successor2 = {{nowrap|María Mercedes Maldonado}}
| president2 = Juan Manuel Santos
| office3 = Senator of Colombia
| term_start3 = 20 July 2002
| term_end3 = 20 July 2006
| office4 = Minister of National Defence
| term_start4 = 7 August 1991
| term_end4 = 7 August 1994
| predecessor4 = Oscar Botero Restrepo
| successor4 = Fernando Botero Zea
| president4 = César Gaviria
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|11|26|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
| death_date =
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| nationality = Colombian
| party = Liberal
| spouse = Claudia de Francisco (1980-present)
| children = Laura Pardo de Francisco
Cristina Pardo de Francisco
Alejandra Pardo de Francisco
| alma_mater = University of the Andes (BA, 1977)
| profession = Economist
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| website = {{URL|http://www.rafaelpardo.com/}}
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{{family name hatnote|Pardo|Rueda|lang=Spanish}}
Rafael Pardo Rueda (born 26 November 1953) is a Colombian politician. A Liberal party politician and economist, he has previously served as the 1st Minister of Labour of Colombia serving in the Administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, Minister of National Defence, and was elected Senator of Colombia for the 2002-2006 legislative period.
Career
A 1994-1995 Fellow at the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs of Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts.{{cite web |url=http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/fellows/people/fellowslistings/fellowslisting_class_58-09.pdf |title=WCFIA Fellows, Listed By Class Year |publisher=Weatherhead Center for International Affairs |accessdate=2011-11-01 |page=45 |year=2009 }}
He was the candidate of the Liberal Party for the 2010 Presidential Election.
On 31 October 2011, President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón announced the designation of Pardo as the head of the newly created Ministry of Labour, established as part of a wider Ministerial Cabinet Reform in order to fulfil some of his 2010 campaign promises.{{cite web |first=Juan Manuel |last=Santos Caderón |authorlink=Juan Manuel Santos |url=http://wsp.presidencia.gov.co/Prensa/2011/Octubre/Paginas/20111031_07.aspx |title=Declaración del Presidente Juan Manuel Santos al anunciar la designación de Rafael Pardo como Ministro de Trabajo |trans-title=Declaration of President Juan Manuel Santos at the announcement of the designation of Rafael Pardo as Minister of Labour |location=Bogotá |accessdate=2011-11-01 |date=2011-10-31 |language=Spanish |publisher=Colombia, Press Office of the President of Colombia (SIG) }}
In March 2014, President Santos appointed Minister Pardo as acting Mayor of Bogotá, a position he held until April of that year.{{cite journal|title=Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro removed by president |journal=BBC News |date=19 March 2014 }}{{cite journal |url=http://www.semana.com/nacion/articulo/maria-mercedes-maldonado-nueva-alcaldesa-encargada-de-bogota/384348-3 |journal=Semana |title=María Mercedes Maldonado, alcaldesa (e) de Bogotá |location=Bogotá|date=21 April 2014 |accessdate=22 April 2014 |language=Spanish |issn=0124-5473 |oclc=7475329}} Pardo is also a member of Washington D.C. based think tank The Inter-American Dialogue.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thedialogue.org/experts/rafael-pardo/|title=Inter-American Dialogue {{!}} Rafael Pardo|website=www.thedialogue.org|access-date=2017-04-19}}
Works
Books
- {{cite book |last1=Pardo Rueda |first1=Rafael |title=De Primera Mano: Colombia 1986-1994, Entre Conflictos y Esperanzas |trans-title=First Hand: Colombia 1986-1994, Between Conflicts and Hopes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ET-8AAAAIAAJ |series=Literatura y ensayo |year=1996 |publisher=Norma Editorial |location=Bogotá |language=Spanish |isbn=978-958-04-3661-4 |oclc=252955438 |lccn=97162511 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Pardo Rueda |first1=Rafael |title=Nueva Seguridad Para América Latina |trans-title=New Security For Latin America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qU-7AAAAIAAJ |volume=29 |series=Textos |year=1999 |publisher=Friedrich Ebert Foundation of Colombia: CEREC |location=Bogotá |language=Spanish |isbn=978-958-9061-99-2 |oclc=45698956 |lccn=00334863 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Pardo Rueda |first1=Rafael |title=El Siglo Pasado |trans-title=The Last Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NdxrAAAAMAAJ |year=2001 |publisher=Colpatriañ CEREC |location=Bogotá |language=Spanish |isbn=978-958-8101-06-4 |oclc=48969250 |lccn=2002393043 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Pardo Rueda |first1=Rafael |title=La Historia de las Guerras |trans-title=History of Wars |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P9xrAAAAMAAJ |year=2004 |publisher=B. Colombia |location=Bogotá |language=Spanish |isbn=978-958-97405-5-2 |oclc=60841389 |lccn=2005420183 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Pardo Rueda |first1=Rafael |title=Fin del Paramilitarismo: ¿Es Posible Su Desmonte? |trans-title=The End of Paramilitarism: Is Its Decline Possible? |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mukTAQAAIAAJ |year=2007 |publisher=Ediciones B |location=Barcelona |language=Spanish |isbn=978-958-8294-18-6 |oclc=190863961 |lccn=2008415004 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Pardo Rueda |first1=Rafael |title=Entre dos poderes (Tomo I): De cómo la guerra fría moldeó a América Latina |trans-title=Between two powers (Volume I): How the Cold War shaped Latin America |url=http://www.editorialtaurus.com/co/libro/entre-dos-poderes-tomo-1/ |year=2014 |publisher=Taurus Historia |language=Spanish |isbn=9789587587142}}
Other
- {{cite book |title =New issues in Latin American's [sic] security after the Cold War |last=Pardo Rueda |first=Rafael |publisher=Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs |type=Thesis/Dissertation |date=July 1995 |oclc=41450989 }}
- {{Cite book |last=Pardo Rueda |first=Rafael |date=2005-10-13 |title=La Ley de Justicia y Paz ¿Traerá Una Verdadera Paz? |trans-title=The Justice and Peace Law: Will It Bring True Peace? |publisher=FRIDE |language=Spanish |url=http://www.fride.org/download/COM_LeyJusPaz_ESP_oct05.pdf |type=Article/Paper}}
- {{cite journal |publisher=The Liberal Institute of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation |title=Human Rights and the Wars on Drugs and Terrorism: A View from Latin America |last=Pardo Rueda |first=Rafael |year=2005 |url=http://www.freiheit.org/files/152/09-OC-low.pdf |journal= Occasional Papers |issue=9 |type=Article/Paper}}
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