Rafael Urdaneta - Political Career

Political Career

Urdaneta served as Secretary of the Military and as Minister of War. He was also elected as senator on numerous occasions to the Congress of the Gran Colombia (a union which included today's Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador).

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