Fernando Araújo Perdomo
Colombian politician
Fernando Araújo Perdomo (born 27 June 1955) is a Colombian politician. He was the Minister of Development during the administration of Andrés Pastrana. He resigned from this post after the Chambacú land deal scandal. He was later kidnapped by the FARC-EP guerrillas and held for six years until he eventually escaped. Two months later after his liberation, President Álvaro Uribe appointed him as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Education
Araújo graduated from high school in the Colegio La Salle in the city of Cartagena. He then moved to Bogotá and studied civil engineering at the Pontifical Xavierian University.
Chambacú case
Araújo resigned after Ignacio Gómez published in El Espectador the note "Chambacú, corral de empresarios", in which he was accused of participating in a corrupt land deal.
Kidnapping
While he was under investigation, Araújo was kidnapped on December 4, 2000, near his home in Cartagena by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and escaped more than six years later, on December 31, 2006, after a Colombian National Army military operation in the Montes de María mountains in the southern regions of the Bolivar Department. Araújo spent several days in hiding without food or water until eventually finding help and then facing the press on January 5, 2007.
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