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Biografia. Família e juventude. Carreira na mídia. Exílio e asilo político. Vida pessoal. Obras. Referências. Virginia Vallejo García (Cartago, Valle del Cauca, 26 de agosto de 1949) é uma escritora, jornalista, diretora de televisão e rádio, apresentadora, modelo, colunista, socialite e asilada política colombiana nos Estados Unidos da América.
Virginia Vallejo García (Cartago, 26 de agosto de 1949) es una escritora, periodista, presentadora de televisión y de radio, directora y productora de medios, columnista, modelo y socialite colombiana. Es una de las figuras y referencias más importantes en las comunicaciones de su país. [1]
Virginia Vallejo en Miami. Foto de Dora Franco, 2017. Virginia Vallejo García es una periodista y autora colombiana, asilada política en los Estados Unidos desde 2010. Es conocida por su carrera en los medios de comunicación, sus denuncios de corrupción contra la clase política, y el libro “Amando a Pablo odiando a Escobar”, donde ella ...
- Early Life
- Career in The Media
- Exile and Asylum in The U.S.
- Testimonies
- Personal Life
- External Links
Family and childhood
Virginia Vallejo was born on 26 August 1949 in Cartago, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, near her family's ranch. Her parents were Juan Vallejo Jaramillo, an entrepreneur, and Mary García Rivera. Her paternal grandmother, Sofía Jaramillo Arango, was a descendant of Alonso Jaramillo de Andrade Céspedes y Guzmán, a nobleman from Extremadura, Spain. Several members of her family were ministers, writers and ambassadors, such as her paternal grandfather Eduardo Vallejo Varela, minister of economy (1930)...
Early career
In 1967 and 1968, she worked as an English teacher in the Centro Colombo Americano in Bogotá and, in 1969, in the presidency of Banco del Comercio. In 1972, while she was working as director of public relations of Cervecería Andina, she received an invitation to join an upcoming television program directed by Carlos Lemos Simmondsand Aníbal Fernández de Soto.
Introduction
Until 1998, there were only three television channels in Colombia that belonged to the Government: two commercial and one official. Inravisión, the official broadcasting entity, leased spaces to independent television producers known as programadoras, many owned by prominent journalists or presidential families.This was the reason why Vallejo could work simultaneously as a news anchor and presenter of other programs.
1970s
From 1972 to 1975, she was as the presenter of "¡Oiga Colombia, Revista del Sábado!", a program directed by Carlos Lemos Simmonds and Fernández de Soto. From 1973 to 1975, she was the host of the television musical shows "Éxitos 73", "Éxitos 74" and "Éxitos 75", produced by THOY, the programadora of the family of President Julio César Turbay. In 1973, she began working as a reporter on TV Sucesos-A3, the newscast directed by Alberto Acosta; and, from 1975 to 1977, she became the international...
1980s
In 1981, she founded her own programadora, TV Impacto, with the journalist Margot Ricci. That same year, the Government of Israel invited them to do a special program about The Holy Land. In 1980 and 1982, she worked at Caracol Radio. She was the only journalist sent by a Colombian media outlet to London to cover the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer on 29 July 1981. Vallejo's broadcast for Caracol lasted three hours. She covered the Miss Colombia pageantfor the same stati...
Departure from Colombia
In early July 2006, Vallejo offered her testimony in the case against Alberto Santofimio, a former Justice Minister and associate of Pablo Escobar, head of the Medellín cartel and her lover from 1983 to 1987. The politician was on trial for conspiracy in the assassination of Luis Carlos Galán, a presidential candidate killed by Pablo Escobar on 18 August 1989. The following week, the Prosecutor Edgardo José Maya Villazón closed the case "for lack of evidence". All of Escobar's hitmen in the c...
Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar
In 2007, Vallejo published Amando a Pablo, odiando a Escobar (In English: Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar), in which she describes, among other topics, her romantic relationship with Pablo Escobar, head of the Medellín Cartel, from 1982 to 1987; the origins of the rebel organizations in Colombia; the reasons for the explosive growth of the cocaine industry; the birth of MAS (Muerte a Secuestradores), which in English means 'Death to Kidnappers', The Extraditables, and the United Self-Defense For...
Political asylum
Upon arriving to the United States in 2006, Vallejo requested political asylum. She knew that ifreturned to Colombia, she would be killed, like several witnesses in the cases vs. AlbertoSantofimio and the bosses of the Cali cartel. To grant her political asylum, the State of Departmentand the Immigration Court of Miami examined Vallejo's life and could not find any investigationagainst her; only hundreds of threats from members of the Colombian government, media outlets owned or directed by t...
Siege of the Palace of Justice
In July 2008, the Colombian Government ordered Virginia Vallejo to testify in the reopened case of the Palace of Justice siege ( 6 and 7 November 1985), a massacre that cost the lives of more than 100 people, including 11 Supreme Court Justices, rebels of the M-19, government agents, and dozens of unarmed civilians. In the Colombian Consulate in Miami, a prosecutor sent by the Colombian Attorney General asked the author to confirm the events described in her memoir, in the chapter "That Palac...
Case of Luis Carlos Galán
In July 2009, Vallejo testified in the reopened case of the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán which occurred on 18 August 1989, and signaled Alberto Santofimio as the main instigator of the candidate's assassination.She described how, in 1984 and 1985 and in her presence, Alberto Santofimio had repeatedly asked Pablo Escobar to "...eliminate Senator Galan before he could become the president and extradite him".
Verdicts
Twenty-five years after the Palace of Justice massacre, on 9 June 2010 judge Maria Stella Jara sentenced Colonel Alfonso Plazas of the army to 30 years in prison for forced disappearance of the detained. President Uribe attacked the verdict on television and offered his protection to the military.The next week, with a European human rights organization, Judge Jara had to flee Colombia and went into exile. After 18 years of delays and appeals, in 2007 Alberto Santofimio received a sentence of...
Virginia Vallejo has been married twice to prominent and older men, the architect Fernando Borrero, a widower, and David Stivel, head of the Clan Stivel that grouped the leading Argentinean actors of his time.Virginia has often said that she would never have children. After her divorce from Borrero in 1971, she dated the future Colombian billionair...
Virginia Vallejo Garcia is a Colombian journalist, anchorwoman, author, columnist, multilevel-marketing Diamond, whistleblower, and political asylee in the United States of America since 2010.
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6 de nov. de 2020 · Montagem de Pablo Escobar e Virginia Vallejo - Wikimedia Commons A face sanguinária do narcotraficante Pablo Escobar muitas vezes se limita aos crimes e assassinatos orquestrados na Colômbia durante as décadas de 80 e 90, todavia, muito de sua vida pessoal também serviria para contribuir com a imagem tétrica do homem.
