In August 2013, Luis Alfredo Ramos was imprisoned under investigation of the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia, accused of criminal nexus with paramilitary groups in Antioquia but was later released in November 2016.

Ramos studied law at the Universidad de Medellín and specialized in International Business from Harvard University in the United States.

[1] In 1972 Ramos is appointed head of the Conservative party post that he held for four years until 1976, he was also elected deputy of the Department Assembly of Antioquia for the period of 1974 and 1976.

In 1990 and 1991 was Senator of Colombia but with the dissolution of Congress by President César Gaviria and the introduction of a Constituent Assembly for a new Constitution Ramos decided not to run again.

[1] Ramos decided to postulate his name for Governor of the Antioquia Department in the regional elections of 2007 representing the Alas Equipo Colombia political party.

Ramos defeated candidate Eugenio Prieto Soto of the del Movimiento Una Antioquia Nueva, who obtained 579,020 votes.