Gloria Pachón de Galán (born June 22, 1935) is a Colombian politician and journalist. Between 1993 and 1995 she was the ambassador of Colombia in France during the government of

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and member of the executive board of

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Biography

She is the daughter of journalist Álvaro Pachón de la Torre born on July 22, 1935, in a journalist family in Colombia. She is the widow of

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, with whom she had three children,

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, Carlos Fernando and Claudio Mario. She is also the sister of former education minister

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. In the late 1960s, while working for the newspaper El Tiempo, she met Luis Carlos Galán, whom she married in 1970. Shortly before President

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appointed Luis Carlos Galán as ambassador to

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, they had Juan Manuel, their first child. Being a journalist, she founded the programming company Telestudio, which broadcast the Telenoticiero del Mediodía, under her direction. Gloria Pachón supported her husband throughout her political career and since he passed away, she and her son Juan Manuel have vindicated the legacy of Luis Carlos Galán. In 2008, when the Superior Court of Cundinamarca released Alberto Santofimio Botero, Gloria Pachón and her family announced that they would file an appeal for annulment, because they support the theory that Santofimio was the one who convinced

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to assassinate Luis Carlos Galán.

References

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