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On February 7, 2003, businessman Gustavo Adolfo Forero Rubio was in a meeting at the club The Walnut when the FARC guerrillas detonated a vehicle with explosives that cost the lives of 35 people.
Almost 18 years later, the Supreme Court of Justice upheld a conviction against El Club for security failures that could facilitate the terrorist action.
Forero Rubio was a llanero and a partner in the company Pastos y Leguminosas.
EL TIEMPO published at the time that the businessman was at the club’s facilities on Friday night in the company of some friends with whom he had met there to share a dinner.
As soon as the news of the attack was known, his family and closest friends were imprisoned in anguish because that night the whereabouts of the 58-year-old agronomist were not known.
(In context: Victim of the attack on El Nogal hugs former FARC chiefs and exparas)
Only around noon the next day was news of the discovery of his body among the rubble of the building.
Forero Rubio was an adoptive son of the Llano because from a very young age he was linked to the region occupying important positions in different companies. At that time, he married Clemencia Hernández from Villavice, a union of which three children remained: Gustavo Adolfo, who was 23 years old at that time, Juan Manuel 20 years old, and María Fernanda 14 years old.
Twenty years before his death in the attack, in the company of other partners, he founded Pastos y Leguminosas, a firm that has been linked to the development of the region throughout all its years of commercial life.
This is how this newspaper reconstructed the moments recorded after his death:
The news not only brought his family and friends to mourning, but also all the employees of Pastos y Leguminosas who did not tire of highlighting the qualities of Forero Rubio.
He was demanding and strict, but this was a way of expressing affection and appreciation for people, since I saw him more as a father than as a boss, says Ricardo Perdomo, a veterinarian and zootechnician of the company.
(Read in context: 16 years of the attack on the El Nogal club are commemorated)
Agronomist Víctor Julio Hernández agrees with this concept, assuring that Forero was an excellent employer, entrepreneur and optimist.
He liked everything to go well for which he was very demanding, but at the same time extremely kind to people. What impressed me the most about him was the enormous leadership that characterized him, he said.
Likewise, Alba Sisney Rojas, Forero’s eternal secretary, thinks that the feelings of appreciation and friendship of the employees towards him are enormous, since they were all like a family. As a boss there is no other equal because he was a person who could be trusted, I consider that more than a superior he was a colleague and friend, as well as an excellent professional.
The agronomist’s funeral was held in the city of Bogotá.
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