Felipe Ramón Hernández Bautista (born October 28, 1940) was the President of Colombia from 1990-1998 and was the Minister of Defense from 1984-1990, and is currently a sitting Senator in the Colombian Congress. A lifelong Republican, Hernández was the Defense Minister during the successful Colombian invasion of Brazil in the mid-to-late 1980's, and thus was credited with the victory in the war and the robust growth of the Colombian military-industrial complex. Due to his strong popularity and lack of complicity in the 1988 economic crisis and sovereign default, Hernández was nominated by the Republicans as their Presidential candidate for the 1990, replacing the weak Rafael Villana. Hernández won a runoff on the second ballot and won on the first ballot in 1994 to secure his reelection, pr