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

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 (in Spanish) Andrés Montejo Salgar, Consuelo de Montejo, Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano
  2. 1 2 3 (in 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 (in 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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