Consuelo Salgar de Montejo

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

Consuelo Salgar de Montejo
Senator of Colombia
In office
1974–1978
Personal details
Born(1928-09-30)30 September 1928
 ColombiaBogotá, D.C., Colombia
Died1 October 2002(2002-10-01) (aged 74)
 United StatesMiami, Florida, United States
NationalityColombian Colombia
Political partyLiberal
Spouse(s)Leopoldo Montejo Peñaredonda
RelationsEustorgio Salgar (Great Grandfather)
ChildrenLeopoldo, Patricia, Mauricio, Felipe and Andrés
Alma materNational University of Colombia, University of California, Berkeley
ProfessionJournalist, psychologist, politics and businesswoman

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.

Politics

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 in Miami on 1 October 2002.

References
  1. (in Spanish) Andrés Montejo Salgar, Consuelo de Montejo Archived 2008-08-20 at the Wayback Machine, Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano
  2. (in Spanish) El Tiempo, Adiós a Consuelo de Montejo
  3. 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. (in Spanish) Henry Holguín, "Colombia es un país de miedosos y arribistas". Archived from the original on October 8, 2002. Retrieved July 9, 2019.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), El Espectador, 6 October 2002
  5. http://www.worldcourts.com/hrc/eng/decisions/1982.03.24_Montejo_v_Colombia.htm
  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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