# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rodrigo-rivera-salazar
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:13:27.389Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rodrigo-rivera-salazar"
name: "Rodrigo Rivera Salazar"
slug: "rodrigo-rivera-salazar"
description: "Rodrigo Rivera Salazar is a Colombian politician. A lawyer, diplomat, professor and journalist, Rivera served in the Congress first as a Member of the Chamber of Representatives for two terms from 1990 to 1998, and then as Senator of Colombia for two terms from 1998 to 2006, when he retired from Congress to run, ultimately unsuccessfully, for the 2006 Liberal presidential nomination. In 2010, Rivera was appointed Minister of National Defence of Colombia by President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón and served until his resignation the following year."
tagline: "Colombian politician and diplomat"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rodrigo_Rivera_Salazar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1963-04-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.06
  momentum:             16.53061224489796
  historical:           5.687006666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Rivera_(Politiker)"
    title: "Rodrigo Rivera (Politiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "رودريغو ريفيرا سالازار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "رودريجو ريفيرا سالازار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Rivera_Salazar"
    title: "Rodrigo Rivera Salazar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Rivera_Salazar"
    title: "Rodrigo Rivera Salazar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Rivera_Salazar"
    title: "Rodrigo Rivera Salazar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2161317"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump