| Consuelo Salgar Jaramillo | |
|---|---|
| Senator of Colombia | |
| Member of the Colombian Chamber of Representatives | |
| In office 1970–1974 |
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| Constituency | Capital District |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 30, 1928 Bogotá, Colombia |
| Died | October 1, 2002 (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 |
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]
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.