Virginia Vallejo García

Virginia Vallejo is a Colombian author, journalist, television anchorwoman, media personality, socialite, and political asylee in the United States of America. On July 18, 2006, the DEA took her out of Colombia in a special flight to save her life and cooperate with the Department of Justice in high-profile cases, after she had publicly accused several Colombian presidents and politicians of being beneficiaries and accomplices of the leading cocaine cartels.

Virginia Vallejo was born on August 26, 1949 in Cartago, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, near her family’s ranch. Her parents were Juan Vallejo Jaramillo, an entrepreneur, and Mary García Rivera. Her grandfather, Eduardo Vallejo Varela, had been minister of economy; and her grandmother, Sofía Jaramillo Arango, was a descendent of Alonso Jaramillo Andrade y Céspedes, a nobleman from Extremadura, Spain.

In 1950, the young family returned to Bogotá, where her siblings, Felipe (1951), Antonio (1955-2012), and Sofía (1957) were born. She studied first in the kindergarten of Elvira Lleras Restrepo, sister of President Carlos Lleras Restrepo, a friend of her family. Then, in the Anglo Colombian School, co-founded by her great uncle Jaime Jaramillo Arango, former minister of education and ambassador to London, Berlin, the United Nations, and Unesco.

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