Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez

Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez (2 October 1912 — 31 December 2005)^[1] was a Colombian civil engineer, businessman and writer who served as 12th Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, and held various ministries during the Military Junta and the National Front in Colombia. As Colombian Minister of Foment in 1957 during the administration of General Gabriel París Gordillo, he helped design and implement the mechanism that would eventually become known as the Vallejo Plan, a business plan that would allow Colombian companies to import raw materials, specialized equipment, and industrial machinery with duty-free exemptions or lowered tariffs, if those materials and/or equipment would go towards producing marketable exporting goods, as an incentive to industrialize the national economy and open up to international markets.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Personal life

Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez was born in Rionegro, Antioquia on 4 October 1912 to Antonio José Nestor Vallejo Mejía and Zoraida Dolores Arbeláez Echeverri. He married his first cousin Nelly Mejía Arbeláez, with whom he had ten children, nine out of which survived into adulthood being: María Eugenia, Luz Marina, María Cristina, María Inés, Nestor Francisco, Jesús Alberto, Rosario del Pilar, José Joaquín, and Pablo.^[7]

Selected works

• Vallejo Arbeláez, Joaquín (1976) (in Spanish). El Mistério del Tiempo [The Mistery of Time]. Candelaria, Valle del Cauca: Italgraf. OCLC 155470210. 
• Vallejo Arbeláez, Joaquín (1971) (in Spanish). A.B.C. de la Integración Latinoamericana [The ABC of Latin American Integration]. El Dedo en la herida, 38. Bogotá: Tercer Mundo. OCLC 253171025. 
• Vallejo Arbeláez, Joaquín (1980) (in Spanish). La Libertad y las Ciencias [Freedom and the Sciences]. Las Fronteras de las Libertades [The Limits of Freedoms]. I. Palmira, Valle del Cauca: Printer Colombiana. OCLC 7946366. 
• Vallejo Arbeláez, Joaquín (1980) (in Spanish). La Libertad en la Filosofia [Freedom in Philosophy]. Las Fronteras de las Libertades [The Limits of Freedoms]. II. Palmira, Valle del Cauca: Printer Colombiana. OCLC 7946366. 
• Vallejo Arbeláez, Joaquín (1980) (in Spanish). La Libertad Humana Ante la Etica y el Derecho [Human Freedom Before Ethic and Law]. Las Fronteras de las Libertades [The Limits of Freedoms]. III. Palmira, Valle del Cauca: Printer Colombiana. OCLC 7946366. 
• Vallejo Arbeláez, Joaquín (1980) (in Spanish). La Practica de la Libertad [The Practice of Freedom]. Las Fronteras de las Libertades [The Limits of Freedoms]. IV. Palmira, Valle del Cauca: Printer Colombiana. OCLC 7946366. 

References

External links

• Álvarez Morales, Víctor; Esteban Vélez, Sergio (2010). "Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez" (in Spanish). 100 Empresarios, 100 Historias [100 Businesspeople, 100 Stories]. Medellín Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 2010-12-29.