Gustavo Balcázar Monzón

Gustavo Balcázar Monzón (born 10 August 1927) and in the administration of President Julio César Turbay Ayala as the 18th Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom, and Non-Resident Ambassador to Algeria.

Personal life He was born on 10 August 1927 in Santiago de Cali, to Ricardo Balcázar and Leonor Monzón and married Bolivia Ramos, with whom he had two daughters, María Isabel and Iliana. Already divorced, he remarried to Nydia Quintero, former First Lady of Colombia, in a civil ceremony in 1984.

He received his primary and secondary education at Berchmans School in Cali. He later traveled to Bogotá to pursue his university studies in Law and Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, obtaining his degree in 1950 with the thesis The city, urban planning and the valorization tax.