Mario Montoya Uribe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mario Montoya Uribe

Colombian general

Date of Birth: 29-Apr-1949

Place of Birth: Buga, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia

Profession: military personnel, criminal

Nationality: Colombia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Mario Montoya Uribe (born 29 April 1949) is a former Colombian military General and Commander of the Colombian National Army (Spanish: Ejército Nacional de Colombia) until his resignation on November 4, 2008 following the 'false positives' scandal involving the deaths of 11 civilians at the hands of the military.
Montoya holds a graduate title in Top management from the Los Andes University (Colombia).
He has trained in armored vehicles courses in Fort Knox, Kentucky and served as the Army, Navy and Air Attaché in the Colombian Embassy at the United Kingdom in London, England.
Montoya was succeeded by General Óscar González on November 6, 2008 as Commander of the Colombian National Army.In September 2010 Montoya, now Colombia's ambassador to the Dominican Republic, was charged with murder by an Ecuadorean court for his role in the 2008 incursion of the Colombian military into Ecuador which destroyed a FARC camp and left more than 20 dead.