Luis Carlos Galán

Luis Carlos Galán

Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento (29 September 1943 – 18 August 1989) was a Colombian liberal politician and journalist who ran for the Presidency of Colombia on two occasions, the first time for the political movement New Liberalism that he founded in 1979. The movement was an offspring of the mainstream Colombian Liberal Party, and with mediation of former Liberal president Julio César Turbay Ayala, Galán returned to the Liberal party in 1989 and sought the nomination for the 1990 presidential election, but was assassinated before the vote took place. Galán declared himself an enemy of the drug cartels and the influence of the mafia in Colombian politics, in this case the main drug cartel being the Medellin Cartel led by Pablo Escobar and who unsuccessfully tried to become a member of the New Liberalism Movement in his bid to become a member of the Colombian House of Representatives. Galán denounced Pablo Escobar in a public rally, and supported the extradition treaty with the U.S, contrary to the wishes of the Colombian cartels that feared extradition to the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luis Carlos Galán has received more than 2,625,596 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Luis Carlos Galán is the 4,829th most popular politician (down from 4,723rd in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Colombia (up from 11th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Colombian Politician.