Consuelo Salgar

Consuelo Salgar Jaramillo
Senator of Colombia
Member of the Colombian Chamber of Representatives
In office 1970–1974
Constituency	Capital District
Personal details
Born	September 30, 1928(1928-09-30) Bogotá, Colombia
Died	October 1, 2002(2002-10-01) (aged 74) Miami, Florida, United States
Nationality	Colombian
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Leopoldo Montejo Peñaredonda
Occupation	journalist, advertising executive, media entrepreneur
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 (September 30, 1928^[1] — October 1, 2002^[2]) was a Colombian journalist, advertising executive, media entrepreneur, and politician.

Ms. 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] She worked for Semana magazine and went on to found 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. Ms. 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] Ms Salgar was a senator, a Representative of the House, a deputy for Cundinamarca Assembly, and president of Bogotá's city council.^[2]

Ms. Salgar was an outspoken opponent of President Julio César Turbay Ayala's Security Statute.^[4] During Mr. 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. Ms Salgar brought the case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.^[5]

Personal life

Ms. Salgar married fellow advertising executive^[2] Leopoldo Montejo Peñaredonda.^[1] She died of liver cancer in Miami.^[2]

She had five children: Leopoldo Montejo, Jr., a renowned medical doctor that graduated from Harvard University, who is currently an associate professor of Stanford University; Patricia Montejo, a businesswoman in Bogotá, Colombia; Mauricio Montejo, a businessman residing in Florida; Andrés Montejo, an attorney who has been admitted to the Bars of D.C. and Florida; and Felipe Montejo, an attorney in New York City.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} (Spanish) Andrés Montejo Salgar, Consuelo de Montejo, Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano
2. ^ ^{a b c d} (Spanish) El Tiempo, Adiós a Consuelo de Montejo, 2 October 2002
3. ^ ^{a b} Paulo Laserna Phillips and Diego Amaral Ceballos, ed (2004) (in Spanish). 50 años: la televisión en Colombia: una historia para el futuro. Zona Editores, Caracol TV. pp. 40. ISBN 958-96587-5-X. 
4. ^ ^{a b} (Spanish) Henry Holguín, “Colombia es un país de miedosos y arribistas”, 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

Persondata
Name	Salgar, Consuelo
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1928-09-30
Place of birth	Bogotá, Colombia
Date of death	2002-10-01
Place of death	Miami, Florida, United States