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Jaime Posada Díaz

founder of the Universidad de América, Bogotá

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ5925264 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jaime Posada Díaz (18 December 1924 – 2 July 2019) was a Colombian politician who served as Ministry of National Education. He died on 2 July 2019 aged 95.

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“Jaime Posada Díaz” enters the record as founder of the Universidad de América, Bogotá. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jaime, Posada and Díaz can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1924, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1924. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jaime, Posada and Díaz.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5925264. VIAF identifies the subject as 52802633. The Library of Congress control number is n87855876. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1924 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jaime Posada Díaz” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.