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.
[citation needed] 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.
[1] 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.
a judicious speaker on Colombia's issues such as political reform, extradition, the Justice and Peace Law and the anti-terrorist statute.
Fourteen years after his death, his son Juan Pablo Camacho was a candidate for the Bogota council, for the Democratic Center.