| Gustavo Balcázar Monzón | |
| Office: | Senator of Colombia |
| Term Start: | 20 July 1982 |
| Term End: | 20 July 1994 |
| Term Start2: | 20 July 1966 |
| Term End2: | 18 January 1979 |
| Term Start3: | 20 July 1962 |
| Term End3: | 8 September 1962 |
| Order4: | 15th |
| Ambassador From4: | Colombia |
| Country4: | United Kingdom |
| Term Start4: | 18 January 1979 |
| Term End4: | 21 September 1981 |
| President4: | Julio César Turbay Ayala |
| Predecessor4: | Jaime García Parra |
| Successor4: | Diego Andrés Restrepo Londoño |
| Order5: | 16th |
| Office5: | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Colombia)Colombian Minister of Agriculture |
| Term Start5: | 6 October 1964 |
| Term End5: | 1 September 1965 |
| President5: | Guillermo León Valencia |
| Predecessor5: | Virgilio Barco Vargas |
| Successor5: | José Mejía Salazar |
| Order6: | 48th |
| Office6: | Governor of Valle del Cauca |
| Term Start6: | 8 September 1962 |
| Term End6: | 17 October 1964 |
| President6: | Guillermo León Valencia |
| Predecessor6: | Carlos Humberto Morales |
| Successor6: | Humberto González Narváez |
| Office7: | Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia |
| Term Start7: | 20 July 1958 |
| Term End7: | 20 July 1962 |
| Constituency7: | Valle del Cauca Department |
| Birth Name: | Gustavo Balcázar Monzón |
| Birth Date: | 10 August 1927 |
| Birth Place: | Cali, Cauca Valley, Colombia |
| Nationality: | Colombian |
| Party: | Liberal |
| Spouse: | Bolivia Ramos (divorced) Nydia Quintero Turbay (1984–present) |
| Children: | María Isabel Balcázar Ramos Iliana Balcázar Ramos |
| Alma Mater: | Pontifical Xavierian University (LLB, LLM, LLD) |
| Profession: | Lawyer |
Gustavo Balcázar Monzón (born 10 August 1927) is a Colombian lawyer and retired politician. A member of the Colombian Liberal Party, he served as Member of both the Senate and the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, presiding over both chambers of Congress. 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,[1] and in the administration of President Julio César Turbay Ayala as the 18th Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom,[2] and Non-Resident Ambassador to Algeria.[3]
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.[4] Already divorced, he remarried to Nydia Quintero Turbay, former First Lady of Colombia, in a civil ceremony in 1984.[5]
He received his primary and secondary education at Berchmans School in Cali. 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.[6]