EVIDENCE: WORLD

LEADERS
By Marcela Meneses
Jaime Garzón
A leader of his people
Jaime Garzon was a lawyer, pedagogue,
humorist, activist, actor, broadcaster, journalist
and Colombian peace mediator.

He was the first recognized character and the

pioneer of political humor in Colombian
television.

Jaime was a man who stood out for his important

influence on public opinion, for his collaboration
in humanitarian tasks to free hostages, and for
his desire to be a third party to mediate peace
processes with the ELN and the FARC.
When was born?
Jaime was born on October 24
1960, in Bogota.
His father, Felix Maria Garzon and his
Daisy Forero mother.
Why was he famous?
Jaime Garzon was a reference leader was a true political leader, gifted
with attitudes and values that have Forged since childhood. Was a leader that has been
made and forge with the experiences of his diary life, his leadership was strengthened
by values such as trust, commitment, a sense of community,
solidarity with the needy, hope and the will of iron.
The young Jaime
He spent his childhood in downtown Bogota San Diego. There he attended his
education at a seminar where he showed considerable impertinence and little respect
for the authorities.
In 1978, at 18 years of age and before entering the University, Garzon joined the front
Jose Solano Sepulveda, network of the ELN where he died under the alias of Heidi. After
4 months he retired and returned to his home.
I study law at the National University of Colombia.
School and
college
After failing in other previous
studies, he studied political
science at the Pontificia
Universidad Javeriana, but
above all he committed
himself to political activism
and received the
postgraduate degree in 1999
and then received the honor
in education from the
University of the José de
Caldas District .
Family life
Jaime fell madly in love with a woman who works in the Police. His stable partner was
Gloria Hernandez, a divorced woman with two children that he wanted as if they were
his own. She accompanied him until the day of his death.
Jaime Garzón: Major of Sumapaz
In 1988 he became major of Sumapaz. During the year that Garzón was mayor of the
town, he built a health center, a better school and pavement on the only street in the
town. In 1989 Volmar Pérez Ortiz signed his dismissal.

Between 1990 and 1994, Garzón worked at the Casa de Nariño, during the presidency
of César Gaviria, as coordinator of the translations of the new 1991 Constitution into
indigenous languages.
Trajectory in the media
On December 5 he was interviewed by a journalist of the Seven of the News, which would be
his first appearance on television.

While Garzón worked at Nariño's house, he began his foray into the media that would make
him popular. His first program called Zoociedad 1990-1993, which has a social and political
parody of the country as the security situation and the narco-war lived at that time by the
Medellin cartel.

Quac! The news Between 1995 and 1997 in which characters such as Nestor Eli, the
watchman of a building called "Colombia", his political actors were debuted; inti of the sickle,
a modern frivolay muchcha; a leftist student named "Companion" John Lenin; the "reporter",
inspired by the journalist William Parra. In that program satires and mockeries were made to
the political crisis.

Owl and CM & After the news closes Quac! In 1997, Garzón joined the Lechuza del Canal
Caraco, Radionet and the CM & news program, with his latest and most recognized character
Heriberto de la Calle, a shoeshine that interviewed famous people, which reached many
Colombian hearts.
References
Wikipedia
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Garz%C3%B3n#Alcalde_menor_de_Sumapaz
Revista semana
https://www.semana.com/nacion/articulo/jaime-garzon-20-anos-de-su-muerte/487694