Consuelo Salgar de Montejo (30 September 1928 – 2 October 2002) Andrés Montejo Salgar

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/ref> was a Colombian journalist, advertising executive, media entrepreneur, and politician. Salgar studied in England and the United States. She joined

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and later established Publicidad Técnica, her own

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. She directed ''Ella, él y alguien más'', a television sitcom, worked for ''

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'', and founded ''Flash'' magazine. In 1966, she won a bid for the first private

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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".

Politics

As a politician, she founded the Liberal Independent Movement (MIL), a dissident faction of the

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which would join the Frente Unido por el Pueblo, coalition with left-wing MOIR and populist

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. Henry Holguín, , ''

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'', 6 October 2002 Salgar was a senator, a

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of the House, a deputy for Cundinamarca Assembly, and president of Bogotá City Council. Salgar was an outspoken opponent of President

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's Security Statute. 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

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Personal life

Consuelo was born on 30 September 1928, in Bogotá, Colombia to Jorge Salgar de la Cuadra and Margot Jaramillo Arango. She married fellow advertising executive Leopoldo Montejo Peñaredonda with whom she had five children: Leopoldo, Patricia, Mauricio, Andrés, and Felipe. She died in Miami on 1 October 2002.

References

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