Consuelo Salgar de Montejo
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 (aged 74) Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| 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 |
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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. She joined McCann Erickson and later established Publicidad Técnica, her own advertising agency. She directed Ella, él y alguien más, a television sitcom, worked for Semana, and founded Flash magazine. 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".