José Luis Castillo (activist)

José Luis Castillo (born April 19, 1968, in Den Haag, Netherlands) is a Colombian American activist, politician, and nonprofit community liaison in South Florida. He is the founder of the Colombian American Foundation in Miami and the Pan American Coalition an umbrella organization comprised of 14 groups representing an array of immigrants from Central America and the Caribbean and is active in the community fighting for the rights and liberties of his fellow Colombian Americans. He has been awarded the title of "Gran Caballero" con la Orden de la Democracia Simón Bolívar from Colombia.