Gustavo Balcázar Monzón (born 10 August 1927)[1] is a Colombian lawyer and retired politician.
He also served in the administrations of President Guillermo León Valencia as the 48th Governor of Valle del Cauca, and as the 16th Minister of Agriculture,[2] and in the administration of President Julio César Turbay Ayala as the 18th Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom,[3] and Non-Resident Ambassador to Algeria.
[4] He was born on 10 August 1927 in Santiago de Cali, to Ricardo Balcázar and Leonor Monzón and married Bolivia Ramos, with whom he had two daughters, María Isabel and Iliana.
[1] Already divorced, he remarried to Nydia Quintero Turbay, former First Lady of Colombia, in a civil ceremony in 1984.
He later traveled to Bogotá to pursue his university studies in Law and Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, obtaining his degree in 1950 with the thesis The city, urban planning and the valorization tax.