Principios y pensamientos de Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento

Galán Sarmiento, Luis Carlos, Principios y pensamientos de Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento, Colombia: Incolda, 19??.

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 Cesar Turbay Ayala, Galan returned to the Liberal party in 1989 and sought the nomination for the 1990 presidential election. (… )After receiving several death threats, on August 18, 1989, Galán was shot to death by hitmen hired by the drug cartels during a campaign rally in the town of Soacha, Cundinamarca. At the time, Galan was comfortably leading the polls with 60 per cent favourable ratings for the forthcoming 1990 presidential election. The investigation into his assassination remains unsolved.