Consuelo Salgar de Montejo | |
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Senator of Colombia | |
In office 20 July 1974 – 20 July 1978 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Consuelo Salgar de Montejo 30 September 1928 Bogotá, Colombia |
Died | 1 October 2002 Miami, Florida, U.S. | (aged 74)
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]