Consuelo Salgar de Montejo

Consuelo Salgar de Montejo
Senator of Colombia
In office 20 July 1974 – 20 July 1978
Personal details
Born	Consuelo Salgar de Montejo (1928-09-30)30 September 1928 Bogotá, Colombia
Died	1 October 2002(2002-10-01) (aged 74) Miami, Florida, U.S.
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Leopoldo Montejo Peñaredonda
Relations	Eustorgio Salgar, Great Grandfather
Children	Leopoldo, Patricia, Mauricio, Felipe and Andrés
Alma mater	National University of Colombia, University of California, Berkeley
Profession	Journalist, psychologist, politics, and businesswoman

Consuelo Salgar de Montejo (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 private television channel in Colombia, Teletigre (TV-9 Bogotá), which lasted 5 years until the new elected government decided not to renew its license. Salgar founded four newspapers: El Periódico, El Matutino, El Caleño, and El Bogotano.

Writer of the book; "Un siglo en Guerra".[4]

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.[5] 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.[5] During Turbay's government she was arrested and sentenced to one year of imprisonment by a military judge on 7 November 1979, for allegedly having a legal gun of his property. She would be released 3 months later. Salgar brought the case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.[6]

Personal life

Consuelo was born on 30 September 1928, in Bogotá, Colombia to Jorge Salgar de la Cuadra and Margot Jaramillo Arango.[7] 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 20 August 2008 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. "Un Siglo en Guerra: Por Consuelo Salgar de Montejo".
5. (in Spanish) Henry Holguín, "Colombia es un país de miedosos y arribistas". Archived from the original on 8 October 2002. Retrieved 9 July 2019., El Espectador, 6 October 2002
6. "Salgar de Montejo v. Colom., Comm. 64/1979, U.N. Doc. A/37/40, at 168 (HRC 1982)". Archived from the original on 5 December 2021. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
7. Romero, Flor; Pachón Castro, Gloria (1961). Mujeres en Colombia (in Spanish). Bogotá: Editorial Andes. OCLC 1474829. Retrieved 27 April 2013.

External links

• Times, Edmund K. Gravely Jr Special to The New York (3 June 1972). "Women's Lib in Colombia: The Restraint Is Fading". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 12 September 2023.