Uribe: Smart & Hard Working

Joachim Bamrud
Latin Business Chronicle
August 4, 2010

In the cabinet room of the Narino presidential palace in Bogota, there’s a long table where President Alvaro Uribe meets with his ministers. Except for one, all of the chairs around that table are large – the type CEO’s like to have in front of a luxurious desk.

The one chair that is the exception is a simple – relatively small – office chair. That’s where Uribe sits.

That kind of no-nonsense modesty is just one of Uribe’s many traits that have made him popular in Colombia and among foreign investors...

”...I think everything about President Uribe is impressive,” says Susan Segal, President & CEO of the Americas Society and the Council of the Americas. “He is extremely serious and focused yet very charismatic. He has a strong and assertive personality but engages his team and everyone around him. His vision and passion for his country, his knowledge of every detail and his strong sense of history are evident in all that he does and says.  But in summary, possibly, it is his optimism and tenacity never accepting no as an answer sprinkled with a sense of humor which has always impressed me.”

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