Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez

Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez
Official UN Portrait of Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez.
Minister of Government of Colombia
In office 7 August 1970 – 17 November 1970
President	Misael Pastrana Borrero
Preceded by	Douglas Botero Boshell
Succeeded by	Abelardo Forero Benavides
12th Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations
In office 1 October 1969 – 14 September 1970
President	Carlos Lleras Restrepo
Preceded by	Julio César Turbay Ayala
Succeeded by	Augusto Espinosa Valderrama
44th Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Colombia
In office 14 July 1965 – 7 August 1966
President	Guillermo León Valencia
Preceded by	Hernando Durán Dussán
Succeeded by	Abdón Espinosa Valderrama
7th Minister of Foment of Colombia
In office 11 May 1957 – 10 December 1957
President	Gabriel París Gordillo
Preceded by	Mariano Ospina Navia
Succeeded by	Harold Henry Eder Caicedo
Personal details
Born	(1912-10-02)2 October 1912 Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia
Died	Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Nationality	Colombian
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Nelly Mejía Arbeláez (-1980)
Alma mater	National University of Colombia at Medellín
Profession	Civil Engineer
Religion	Roman Catholic

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Vallejo and the second or maternal family name is Arbeláez.

Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez (2 October 1912 — 31 December 2005) was a Colombian civil engineer, businessman and writer who served as 12th Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, and held various ministries during the Military Junta and the National Front in Colombia. As Colombian Minister of Foment in 1957 during the administration of General Gabriel París Gordillo, he helped design and implement the mechanism that would eventually become known as the Vallejo Plan, a business plan that would allow Colombian companies to import raw materials, specialized equipment, and industrial machinery with duty-free exemptions or lowered tariffs, if those materials and/or equipment would go towards producing marketable exporting goods, as an incentive to industrialize the national economy and open up to international markets.

Personal life

Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez was born in Rionegro, Antioquia on 4 October 1912 to Antonio José Nestor Vallejo Mejía and Zoraida Dolores Arbeláez Echeverri. He married his first cousin Nelly Mejía Arbeláez, with whom he had ten children, nine of them surviveing into adulthood being: María Eugenia, Luz Marina, María Cristina, María Inés, Nestor Francisco, Jesús Alberto, Rosario del Pilar, José Joaquín, and Pablo.

External links

• Álvarez Morales, Víctor; Esteban Vélez, Sergio (2010). "Joaquín Vallejo Arbeláez" (in Spanish). 100 Empresarios, 100 Historias [100 Businesspeople, 100 Stories] on YouTube. Medellín Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 2010-12-29.