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supported Andres Pastrana's presidential campaign in 2002.
Mancuso's allegation concerned Pastrana's 1998 campaign, not a 2002 presidential campaign. Pastrana was already serving as president from 1998 to 2002, so he was not a presidential candidate in 2002.
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This sentence gets the year wrong.
Salvatore Mancuso's earlier testimony, as summarized by La Silla Vacía, says he claimed the AUC collaborated in Andrés Pastrana's second-round campaign in 1998, alongside support for Horacio Serpa in that year's first round. Separately, CIDOB's biography of Pastrana states that he served as President of Colombia from 7 August 1998 to 7 August 2002. That means Pastrana was the incumbent president in 2002, not a presidential candidate.
So the article's wording is incorrect: the allegation was about Pastrana's 1998 presidential campaign, not a nonexistent 2002 Pastrana presidential campaign.
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- ¿Apoyaron los paras la campaña de Uribe en 2002? - La Silla Vacía
En esa ocasión, dijo que colaboró en varias campañas presidenciales, incluida la del liberal Horacio Serpa en primera vuelta y la de Andrés Pastrana en segunda vuelta en 1998.
- Andrés Pastrana Arango | CIDOB
## Presidente de la República (1998-2002) Mandato: 7 Agosto 1998 7 Agosto 2002
He was kidnapped on January 18, 1988, in Antioquia
Pastrana was kidnapped in Bogotá, at his mayoral campaign headquarters, not in Antioquia. He was later taken to a finca in El Retiro, Antioquia during the captivity.
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The location in this sentence is wrong.
A detailed retrospective from El Espectador says that on 18 January 1988 gunmen from Los Extraditables arrived at Pastrana's campaign headquarters in Bogotá and kidnapped him there. The same report explains that the next day he was flown to a finca in El Retiro, Antioquia, where he was held.
So Antioquia was the place where he was later detained during the kidnapping, not the place where the kidnapping happened. The kidnapping itself occurred in Bogotá.
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- El secuestro de siete días de Andrés Pastrana | EL ESPECTADOR
El 18 de enero de 1988, sicarios enviados por el llamado grupo de Los Extraditables llegaron a la sede de campaña del entonces candidato a la Alcaldía de Bogotá y, haciéndose pasar por miembros del M-19, lo secuestraron.
- El secuestro de siete días de Andrés Pastrana | EL ESPECTADOR
Al siguiente día, un helicóptero los llevó a él y a sus secuestradores a una finca en El Retiro (Antioquia), aunque para ese momento, Pastrana no sabía dónde estaba.
18th Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement
The Non-Aligned Movement's leadership role is the chairmanship, not a secretary-generalship. Official NAM materials describe Colombia as holding the NAM chair from 1995 to 1998, with South Africa taking over the chair in 1998.
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This infobox title misstates the office.
Official Non-Aligned Movement materials describe the leadership position as the Chair/Chairmanship, not "Secretary General." The NAM methodology document says "The Chair shall be held" by member states on a rotating basis and that "A Summit host country automatically assumes the Chair of the Movement". Likewise, the official NAM chairmanship site lists Colombia: 1995–1998 and South Africa: 1998–2003 under "Previous Chairmanship & Documents".
So Pastrana briefly held Colombia's chairmanship role in 1998 until the Durban summit transferred it to South Africa. Labeling him "18th Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement" is incorrect because that is not the office NAM's own documents use for this rotating leadership post.
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- Non-Aligned Movement | Cancillería
Colombia chaired the Movement of the Non-Aligned Countries - NAM between 1995 and 1998.
- Document on the methodology of NAM Movement
The Chair shall be held following the principle of regional rotation... A Summit host country automatically assumes the Chair of the Movement until the holding of the next Summit.
- Previous Chairmanship & Documents | NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT (NAM)
South Africa — September, 1998, Durban (XII) Summit — 1998 - 2003 ... Colombia — October, 1995, Cartagena (XI) — 1995 - 1998.