Consuelo Salgar

Consuelo Salgar de Montejo (30 September 1928 – 2 October 2002) was a Colombian journalist, advertising executive, media entrepreneur, and politician.

Salgar studied in England and the United States. her own advertising agency.

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. Salgar was a senator, a Representative of the House, a deputy for Cundinamarca Assembly, and president of Bogotá City Council.

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.