Pedro Gomez

The fact is that thus was before in Colombia, in the times of the grandfathers, when was worth the word, long before that the white-collar thieves they arrived. There in that territory of loyal rural grandfathers and peaceful, in Cucunubá, Cundinamarca, was born Pedro Gómez 75 years ago. Its history already is known: that of the son of the teacher and the medium farmer that once secondary graduate is fixed them to arrive to where a minister and to request him that guard named him at night in the building for be able to study straight in the day in the University of the Rosary. And that that serene one of a Bogota frozen was so good student that finished as the college student of the Rosary, at the age of 25 judge in Facatativá, to the 29 director of Appreciation of Bogota and to the 30 manager founder of the businesses Currea Governess and Mazuera, first, and after Currea Governess and Uribe Holguín, and for 35 years the dad and the soul and the motor and the Of his own firm, Pedro Gómez and Company Limited. And the years spent, and Mr. Pedro did not only think that its life was destined to build houses for the average or wealthy layers of the country. The first thing that caused was to raise a beautiful inn in its town, with so much love by this that even has been impelled in a program to rescue the tradition of the craft weaverbirds that saw in its infancy. With a vision and rare social sense in the Colombian businessmen, in 1979 was the agent to Share, that almost 25 years after always with great capacity of reaction before the disasters and adversities of the country, sample like results 30.000 solutions of dwelling built for the Colombians of scarce resources and 28 educational staffs for 124.000 children and young, besides training and credit for a hundred thousand microempresarios and I work with the teachers that besides a great annual prize he has rescued more than eleven thousand pedagogical proposals. They have been years of a lot of intensity, of which recalls especially those times in which directed to Revive, for the reconstruction of Gunsmith, or those nights in which it was played all in Caracas, where was the Colombian ambassador, to avoid a war with Venezuela, during the recalled incident of the corvette hot springs. Son of the rural entrails of the savannah cundiboyacense, absolutely Andean in their skin and their blood, al tip of all this traffic verified that the large political conflicts of Colombia have roots and social reasons. Tireless search engine of the peace, believes that the final only solution will be the political negotiation, and I need that "while exist in Colombia so much poverty and that poverty continue growing, there will not be tranquility".