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Álvaro Uribe

President of Colombia, 2002 to 2010

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Pursued a hard-line security strategy against FARC guerrillas that weakened them but was accompanied by human rights controversies.

Álvaro Uribe sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning free market and leaning authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly strength-first on war and peace, strongly traditional on culture and leaning free market on economy.

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Where Álvaro Uribe sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyLeaning free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Álvaro Uribe

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Political views closest to Álvaro Uribe

NeoconservatismPairs free markets and traditional values with an assertive, democracy-promoting foreign…99%Hawkish realismSees the world as a contest between states, where military strength and alliances secure…97%Thatcherism and ReaganismFree-market economics, tax cuts, deregulation and a firm stance toward the Soviet Union.97%MilitarismTreats military strength and martial values as central to national life.96%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Departamento Nacional de Planeación, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.