Luis Carlos Galán: Policy Performance

Luis Carlos Galán: Policy Performance

Introduction

Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento, was born in Bucaramanga on September 29, 1943 and was killed on August 18, 1989 in the city of Soacha. He was professional as a lawyer, economist, journalist and politic. Through journalism, he was known by the country’s ruling class and was "adopted" by former president Carlos Lleras Restrepo as his political and intellectual heir. 

Developing

Lleras remained as president and appointed Galán as the first member of the Colombian delegation at the World Conference on World Trade and Development. The following year, the new President Misael Pastrana Borrero appointed him Minister of Education, since he was the youngest to enter the Ministry, served until 1972, after which he went to the Colombian Embassy in Italy and worked for four years. In 1980, under the motto ‘Bogotá belongs to all its inhabitants’, he obtained an overwhelming vote of the Capital Assembly and became a national leader. 

In 1982, Galán participated in the presidential elections of the Republic, and the Libertad Conference held a year ago closed the debate between Galán and President -elect Michelsen. In the election, Galán took third place only behind the winner Belisario Betancur and former President López. However, the result benefited from neoliberalism, which agreed to independence. For the 1986 elections, Galán decided to withdraw his campaign and supported the free coalition around Virgilio Barco, which was an overwhelming majority.

In 1987, under the mediation of former president Julio César Turbay Ayala, Galán returned to the Colombian Liberal Party (PLC) to participate in a mass consultation and confirmed the party candidate for the 1990 general elections. It is believed that Galán was influenced by Jorge Eliecer Gaitán, and has always admired him for his transparent and frank way of acting, since, he fought against drug trafficking and against the corruption of the State. It is considered that, together with Gaitán and Rafael Uribe, he was one of the great politicians of the Liberal Party in the twentieth century. 

Galán’s death had a great impact on the people and the government, because the next day it was declared that the decree was not issued and the decree was issued. 1830 of August 19, 1989, which authorized extradition administratively without request to the Supreme Court of Justice. At the time of his death, all opinion polls had shown that Galán had achieved a wide victory in the 1990 presidential elections (more than 60% of people supported him). César Gaviria, the head of the Galán campaign debate, was designated as his successor. 

His eldest son Juan Manuel Galán was the one who delivered the flags of the party and campaign to Gaviria in his speech. Cesar Gaviria won the 1990 presidential elections and did not become head of state until 1994. Galán’s importance in Colombian politics is obvious. The neoliberalism of his party was a key factor at the end of the era of drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, because its members, especially Luis Carlos Galán and Lara Bonilla who were killed by this "capo" these homicides were perpetrated in order to shut up or stopThis movement that worked for peace and against corruption in the country.

conclusion

Soacha deputy Julio César Peñalosa Sánchez, who was next to Galán at the time of the attack, died as a result of a shot in the head. He also died in the Santiago Cuervo (Escort de Galán) attack, which was the one who transferred the politic to the hospital. Thanks to the statements of Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez and a long judicial process is guilty as an intellectual co -author of the murder to the former minister Alberto Santofimio Botero, who was sentenced to 24 years in prison and today he fulfills his sentence in the modality of house by jail.