Gabriel Camargo Salamanca
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Gabriel Camargo Salamanca (23 May 1942 – 21 November 2022) was a Colombian businessman and sports director who worked in politics as a departmental deputy, municipal councilor and senator of the republic. At the start of the 2020s he was the largest shareholder of Deportes Tolima.[1]
Salamanca was born in Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia, and he married Leonor Serrano (born 1 May 1936), a marriage from which three children were born (Gabriel, Catherine and Caesar Alexander). Gabriel Camargo was known through the company Incubacol and for more than 20 years as a leader of the football professional Colombian.
Salamanca died of cancer in Bogotá on 21 November 2022, at the age of 80.[2]
Political life
Among the public positions he has held are: senator of the Republic of Colombia, deputy of the Departmental Assembly of Cundinamarca between 1994 and 1998, and councilor of Fusagasuga.
For the parliamentary elections of 1998, he joined the Partido Somos Colombia, with which he campaigned to obtain the position of senator of the Republic for the period 1998 to 2002, winning the elections with 39,146 votes where the majority of votes in his favor were obtained in Cundinamarca, Tolima and Boyacá, serving in the Third Commission of the Senate, this as Holder of the Seat.
Works in Colombian sports
Salamanca started in the sport, in his youth, when he practiced athletics, becoming national runner-up in the 100 m. At the University of Tunja he played baseball and soccer as a goalkeeper. Later he was the director of the Athletics League of Boyacá, before having contacts with the Junior of Barranquilla through the then president of that club, Fuad Char.
However, it was the engineer Luis Ernesto Camacho, in the company of Héctor Rivera, who spoke with Gabriel Camargo and Eduardo Robayo to offer them Deportes Tolima. Camargo and Robayo studied the offer and were involved in Colombian soccer since the end of the 1970s.