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33rd President of Colombia | |
| Predecessor | Rafael Caldera |
| Successor | Luis Carlos Galán |
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Minister of Justice | |
| Predecessor | Nicolás Belefontes |
| Successor | Tomás Bondejas Córtez |
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Chief Prosecutor for Bogotá Capital District | |
| Predecessor | Enrique Malenquez |
| Successor | Tomás Bondejas Córtez |
| Born | August 17, 1954 Bogotá, Dist. Cap. Bogotá, Est. Cundinamarca, Colombia |
| Spouse | Nohra Puyana Bickenbach |
| Political Party | Republican Party |
| Religion | Catholic |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Andrés Pastrana Arango (born 17 August 1954) was the President of Colombia from 1998 to 2002 as a member of the Republican Party. As a former President, he currently sits in the Senate of Colombia as Senator-for-life. His reign was marred by corruption scandals involving department-level officials with close ties to his Cabinet, a return of narcoviolence that had subsided under the Presidencies of his predecessors and the 2002-2003 Colombian recession, the first such recession since the late 1980's.
Prior to the Presidency, Pastrana was Chief Prosecutor for the Bogotá Capital District and Minister of Justice during President Felipe Hernández's second term.
Pastrana is the son of four-time Republican Party Presidential candidate Misael Pastrana, who was the longtime Republican Mayor of Bogotá and later Party Chairman, and who died in 1997 without living to see his son attain the political office he had sought.