Carlos Alberto Baena
| Carlos Alberto Baena López | |
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| Senator of Colombia | |
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In office 20 July 2010 – 20 June 2014 |
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| Councillor of Bogotá | |
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In office 2001 – 2009 |
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| Born |
12 November 1967 Armenia, Quindío, Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Political party | Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation |
| Alma mater | Universidad Externado de Colombia |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Website | www |
Carlos Alberto Baena López (born 12 November 1967) is a Colombian lawyer and politician, who served as Senator of Colombia from 2010 to 2014. Baena is a co-founder of the Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation (MIRA) and currently serves as Party Chairman. Before ascending to Congress, Baena served as Councillor of the Bogotá City Council from 2001 to 2009.
Baena also serves as the General Preacher in the Church of God Ministry of Jesus Christ International.
In 2000, Baena co-founded the Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation (MIRA); that same year he was elected as Party Chair serving until 2003. In 2001, Baena was elected to the Bogotá City Council of Bogotá for the first time, as member of the MIRA party. He was consecutively re-elected twice as Councillor in 2004, and in 2008. During his time in office, Baena was acknowledged five times as the best City Councillor by the political watchdog group Bogotá Cómo Vamos.
In 2010, Baena ran for a seat in the Senate of Colombia as the third-in-line of the closed-electoral list of the MIRA party, headed by Senator Alexandra Moreno Piraquive. The party received 324,109 votes in the parliamentary elections, which gave them three seats in the Senate, Baena taking one of these.
Baena proposed and promoted a bill, that ultimately became law, that penalizes every form of discrimination, included discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
He is supportive of the decriminalization of psychoactive drugs consumption, and the creation of supervised injection sites and harm reduction policies, in order to offer medical assistance to substance dependent-individuals.
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