Hernando Durán Dussán

Hernando Durán Dussán
Born	1920 Bogotá
Died	4 September 1998 Kuala Lumpur
Nationality	Colombian
Occupation	Politician

Hernando Durán Dussán (Bogotá, 1920 – Kuala Lumpur, 4 September 1998) was a Colombian lawyer and politician. He was the Mayor of Bogotá and a candidate for the Presidency in 1990.

Durán Dussán was born in Bogotá in 1920, of Huilan ancestry. He attended secondary school at La Salle in Bogotá and also attended Antonio Nariño College before receiving his license to practice law from the National University of Colombia.

Durán Dussán participated in a political protest movement during the presidency of Mariano Ospina Pérez, for which he was sentenced to ten years in prison. He sought asylum in the United States and in France until a military junta seized control of the government in 1958 and granted him amnesty, enabling him to return to Colombia.

Durán Dussán served as the head of the Ministry of Housing under Guillermo León Valencia, the Ministry of Mines under Alberto Lleras Camargo, and the Ministry of Education under Alfonso López Michelsen.

In the middle of the 1980s he became the president of the Colombian Liberal Party. Durán was a staunch opponent of Luis Carlos Galán, the leader of the New Liberalism, and competed with him for the 1990 Liberal presidential nomination, but finished second to César Gaviria, who replaced Galán after the latter's assassination and won both the Liberal nomination and presidency. After his defeat, Durán retired, and became a supporter of Álvaro Uribe.

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