Consuelo Salgar de Montejo
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 | 30 September 1928 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Died | 1 October 2002 (aged 74) Miami, Florida, United States |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse | 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
- ^ a b c d e f Template:Es icon Andrés Montejo Salgar, Consuelo de Montejo, Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano
- ^ a b c Template:Es icon El Tiempo, Adiós a Consuelo de Montejo
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b Template:Es icon Henry Holguín, “Colombia es un país de miedosos y arribistas” at the Wayback Machine (archived October 8, 2002), El Espectador, 6 October 2002
- ^ 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
- ^ Romero, Flor; Pachón Castro, Gloria (1961). Mujeres en Colombia (in Spanish). Bogotá: Editorial Andes. OCLC 1474829. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
- 1928 births
- 2002 deaths
- People from Bogotá
- National University of Colombia alumni
- Colombian psychologists
- Colombian journalists
- Colombian women in politics
- Colombian Liberal Party politicians
- Colombian newspaper founders
- Members of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia
- Members of the Senate of Colombia
- Deaths from liver cancer