Colombian politician born in Bucaramanga to Mario Galán and Cecilia Sarmiento (1943-1989).

Galán ran for President of The Republic of Colombia is a country in north-western South America. It is bound to the north and north-west by the Caribbean Sea, to the east by Venezuela and Brazil, to the south by Ecuador and Peru, and to the west by Panama and the Pacific Ocean. National... Colombia in 1982 but lost to Belisario Betancur. The results of that election gave strength to the new political movement of Colombian politician Luis Carlos Galán founded the Nuevo Liberalismo (New Liberalism) in 1979, as a dissident force of the Colombian Liberal Party. Running against both the conservatives and the mainstream party, Galán lost the elections in 1982. He and his movement officially returned to the Liberal Party in... "Nuevo Liberalismo" that he had founded in 1979. The movement was initially the offspring of the mainstream Liberal party of Colombia but, with the mediation of former president Julio César Turbay, Galán returned to the party in 1987 and intended to win the presidency as its official candidate.

After receiving several death threats, Galán was shot dead by Retail selling Street selling is the bottom of the chain and can be accomplished through purchasing from prostitutes, through cloaked retail stores or refuse houses for users in the act located in red-light districts which often also deal in paraphernalia, dealers marketing merriment at night clubs and other events... drug cartel hitmen on August 18, 1989, during a public demonstration. At the time he was comfortably leading the polls for the fothcoming 1990 Presidential election.

César Gaviria, who had been Galán's debate chief ("Jefe de Debate") during the campaign, was proclaimed as his successor by Galán's family and his supporters inside the Liberal party, and was elected president in 1990.

Recently (2004), information has come to light in the form of a letter written by one of the hitmen (now deceased) who had infiltrated his escort, that Galán's assassination was executed with help from corrupt Colombian policemen and some of his own bodyguards, who had been bought off by the drug mafia, including A WANTED poster of Escobar Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (January 12, 1949–December 2, 1993) was a Colombian drug lord who was considered by members of the government, news reporters and the general public alike to be one of the most ruthless, ambitious and powerful drug dealers in history... Pablo Escobar and many other druglords of the time. Most of the arrested hitmen were killed in jail, allegedly to silence them regarding this fact.

External Links

Spanish Language News Report on the hitman letter (http://semana.terra.com.co/opencms/opencms/Semana/articulo.html?id=81088)