Virginia Vallejo

Virginia Vallejo-Garcia is a Colombian author, journalist and media personality, and a political asylee in the United States of America since 2010. From 1972 to 1994, she was one of the leading television and radio hosts in her native contry. In 2006, with her life at risk, the United States took her out of Colombia to testify in high profile criminal cases.

Her memoir became the number one bestselling book in Spanish in the United States, and her story has inspired a string of documentaries, soap operas, television serials such as Narcos, and upcoming film Escobar starring Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem.