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He was born on October 24, 1960 in Bogota, son of Felix Maria Garzon Cubillos and Ana Daisy Forero Portella, he had four siblings Jorge Alberto, Manuel Alfredo and Maria Soledad (also called Marisol)

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He lived his childhood in a neighborhood of Bogota called San Diego on Calle 29 con Carrera 5Aª. His father died at the age of 7. From a very young age he was a very precocious child. His abilities from pre-school age were typical of an elderly child. That's why in schools the poor teachers didn't know how to deal with a student like him, because back then there was no special education, and they couldn't stand it.

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He studied at the Sócrates School for boys, at a Cooperative School in Cedritos, and at the Minor Seminary of Bogotá, where he studied until the second year of high school, then he entered the Escuela Normal Superior de Ntra Señora de la Paz, where he studied until half of sixth year of high school because he was expelled and graduates from the Normal University of the Free University. He began his pedagogical training career at the Escuela Normal de Paz in 1975, then studied a Bachelor's degree in Physics at the National Pedagogical University, which he did not finish, later he studied law at the National University of Colombia and received the degree posthumously in 1999 and later in 2017 Honoris causa in education from the National Pedagogical University.

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Appointment of Minor Mayor of Sumapaz-1988-1990

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Appointment of Minor Mayor of Sumapaz-1988-1990

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Garzón joined the campaign of Andrés Pastrana for the Mayor's Office of Bogotá and on January 18, 1988 he witnessed the moment in which a commando of the Medellín Cartel, led by Jhon Jairo Velásquez alias Popeye, kidnapped the candidate at the headquarters of campaign in Bogotá. Garzón told the kidnappers: "Take me too, don't you see that I am the tour leader?" To which one of the captors responded by kicking him. Then the search for Pastrana began by the authorities who managed to free him a week later and after his victory in the elections, Garzón was appointed minor mayor of Sumapaz.

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To a telegram in which he was asked to notify the authorized brothels in the area, Garzón responded: "After a visual inspection, he reported that the only whores here are the FARC." This response was understood to mean that the minor mayor had created a brothel in the region, however, after the elections for mayor and council in 1990, Garzón as minor mayor was in charge of opening the voting stations in his area. He opened the first one and because he arrived at the second at the wrong time, separated by three hours of walking, he was absent from his post, in addition to looking for food for people who had not had lunch that day, which, along with other eccentricities that were not well regarded by the central administration, led to the government secretary, Volmar Pérez Ortiz, signing his dismissal in 1990.

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He worked as a teacher in some public and private schools, he worked as a Lawyer, he was the Minor Mayor of Sumapaz and he ventured into television from “Zoociedad”, “Noticero Quac”, “Lechuza” and finally created one of his most beloved characters: “ Heriberto de la Calle” who appeared on several news programs, was an excellent pedagogue who used humor to raise awareness among Colombians; He worked with the Presidency during the mandate of President César Gaviria as an advisor and supported the work of the Anti-Kidnapping Czar of the Government of Cundinamarca to mediate for the kidnapped

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That fateful August 13 showed the feeling of Colombians for that person who, through political criticism, showed the injustice, corruption and problems that the country was going through.

Nobody ever imagined that people loved Jaime so much, he was no longer the son, the brother, the cousin, the nephew, he was the multiple people who managed to interpret the feelings of the people and this was seen in the Plaza de Bolívar when he was little. to house the people who poured themselves into it to cry and scream for this crime, it was overwhelming to see Bogotá with rivers of people who accompanied him in a farewell procession that his murderers never imagined originating, such a demonstration had never been seen by anyone .