Consuelo Salgar

Consuelo Salgar Jaramillo
Senator of Colombia
In office
1974–1978
Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia
In office
1970–1974
Constituency Capital District
Personal details
Born (1928-09-30)30 September 1928
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Died 1 October 2002(2002-10-01) (aged 74)
Miami, Florida, United States
Nationality Colombian
Political party Liberal
Spouse(s) Leopoldo Montejo Peñaredonda
Alma mater National University of Colombia
Profession Psychologist
Religion Roman Catholic
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Salgar and the second or maternal family name is Jaramillo.

Consuelo Salgar Jaramillo (30 September 1928 — 2 October 2002)[1][2] was a Colombian journalist, advertising executive, media entrepreneur, and politician.

Salgar studied in England and the United States.[1] She joined McCann Erickson and later established Publicidad Técnica,[1][3] her own advertising agency.[1] She directed Ella, él y alguien más, a television sitcom,[3] worked for Semana, and founded Flash magazine.[1] In 1966, she won a bid for the first privately owned television channel in Colombia, Teletigre (TV-9 Bogotá), which lasted 5 years until the newly elected government decided not to renew its license. Salgar founded four newspapers: El Periódico, El Matutino, El Caleño, and El Bogotano.

As a politician, she founded the Liberal Independent Movement (MIL), a dissident faction of the Colombian Liberal Party which would join the Frente Unido por el Pueblo coalition with left-wing MOIR and populist ANAPO.[4] Salgar was a senator, a Representative of the House, a deputy for Cundinamarca Assembly, and president of Bogotá City Council.[2]

Salgar was an outspoken opponent of President Julio César Turbay Ayala's Security Statute.[4] During Turbay's term, she was arrested and sentenced to one year of imprisonment by a military judge on 7 November 1979, for allegedly selling a gun. She would be released 3 months later. Salgar brought the case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.[5]

Personal life

Consuelo was born on 30 September 1928 in Bogotá, Colombia to Jorge Salgar de la Cuadra and Margot Jaramillo Arango.[6] She married fellow advertising executive Leopoldo Montejo Peñaredonda[1][2] with whom she had five children: Leopoldo, Patricia, Mauricio, Andrés, and Felipe. She died of liver cancer in Miami on 1 October 2002.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 (Spanish) Andrés Montejo Salgar, Consuelo de Montejo, Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano
  2. 1 2 3 (Spanish) El Tiempo, Adiós a Consuelo de Montejo
  3. 1 2 Paulo Laserna Phillips and Diego Amaral Ceballos, ed. (2004). 50 años: la televisión en Colombia: una historia para el futuro (in Spanish). Zona Editores, Caracol TV. p. 40. ISBN 958-96587-5-X.
  4. 1 2 (Spanish) Henry Holguín, “Colombia es un país de miedosos y arribistas” at the Wayback Machine (archived October 8, 2002), El Espectador, 6 October 2002
  5. ↑ Consuelo Salgar de Montejo v. Colombia, Communication No. R.15/64, U.N. Doc. Supp. No. 40 (A/37/40) at 168 (1982)., United Nations Human Rights Committee, 24 March 1982
  6. ↑ Romero, Flor; Pachón Castro, Gloria (1961). Mujeres en Colombia (in Spanish). Bogotá: Editorial Andes. OCLC 1474829. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
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