Roberto Camacho Weberberg

Roberto Camacho Weberberg (1951-2005) was a Colombian politician, congressman, and lawyer. with an Specialization in Labor Law, from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Representative to the Chamber for Bogotá 1991–1994, 1994–1998, 1998–2002, with National Salvation Movement and Representative to the Chamber for Cundinamarca 1990–1991, with the Colombian Conservative Party. He died in a helicopter crash in 2005.

Career
Weberberg's father was an Army general, as was his uncle, Luis Carlos Camacho Leyva, who held the position of Minister of Defense in the Turbay Ayala administration. He was a descendant of Camacho Leyva.

Camacho dedicated himself to politics at a very young age under the guidance of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado and was today one of the most prominent leaders of the parliamentary caucus in the First Commission. One of the most respected, a very serious and responsible legislator.

During May 1991 Jesuit priest Gabriel Giraldo Zuluaga together with Roberto and a group of leading lawyers like Gustavo Eduardo Vergara Wiesner, Rodrigo Noguera Laborde, Gabriel Melo Guevara, Jaime Alberto Guzmán Vargas, Gladys Salazar de Hidalgo, Felipe Diago Jabois, Isabel Cristina Bettin and Alicia Martínez de Suárez, founded Gimnasio Los Caobos, establishing the school in the town of Suba (Bogotá) one of the very few ISO 9000 Certified preparatory schools in Latin America.

Roberto Camacho was a full-fledged conservative, 20 years of work at the service of Conservatism and Colombia. a judicious speaker on Colombia's issues such as political reform, extradition, the Justice and Peace Law and the anti-terrorist statute. left a vacuum in the capital's politics. Fourteen years after his death, his son Juan Pablo Camacho was a candidate for the Bogota council, for the Democratic Center.

Honors

 * Session room Roberto Camacho Weberberg, of Commission I of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the Republic of Colombia.