TIME00246
Latin America and the Caribbean
Colombia
Yes
Critical event
Neutral/neither
Public appointment
01-2009
Colombia: Appointment of Alejandro Ordoñez, a conservative Catholic linked to the Opus Dei, as the attorney general. Ordoñez then appointed Ilva Myriam Hoyos, a longtime professor at the Opus Dei´s Universidad de la Sabana and former president of the antiabortion organization Red Futuro Colombia, as his delegate for women´s rights.