This successful and millionaire builder who, without machinery and at the tip of confrontation, chabacanería and self -confidence, has become the great enigma of this campaign because in a few months it has gone from being an electoral stick in Bucaramanga to register a second after Gustavo Petro in the polls.
A similar phenomenon starred seven years ago, when it defeated traditional politics in Bucaramanga.At that time, he said that his public career would begin and he would end up being mayor of Bucaramanga, but he liked power and today he begins to be seen as the main threat of several coalitions.
His reputation built not so much for his management as mayor - although good - as for his character between the picturesque and the quarrelHe justified as a lapse) or when he hit a councilor.
The ability he has shown to see and make his defeats and scandals like great feats, Rodolfo Hernández defines it in another way: that says things as they are, that it is not allowed to "face", which is not "half inks".
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When Rodolfo Hernández told her mother that she wanted to be president, she reacted the same as when she told her to be mayor.
"Dizque President ... President of Los Piojos will be," says Mrs. Cecilia Suárez, 97.Like her son and many Santandereanos, she speaks stirring, raising her shoulders and opening her eyes.In each sentence there is a word that she pronounces with a taller tone of voice, accentuating her idea.
"But what is going to get into that if you have good money and live well, don't fuck!"
Rodolfo entered politics being one of Santander's most important housing builders and with economic life resolved several decades ago.
He is Humberto's older brother, Alfonso and Gabriel.He was born on March 26, 1945 in Piedecuesta, municipality of the Metropolitan Area of Bucaramanga, when it was a small and distant town, which lived to produce panela and tobacco.His dad, Luis Jesús Hernández, was the tailor of the town.Cecilia administered the Montecarlo tobacco factory, which her mother, Ana Dolores Suárez, inherited in life.
Rodolfo was raised by "La Abuela Lola."As a child, he spent his vacation at his house in Bucaramanga.When they went for a walk together, she stopped in front of the church, and with her arm extended from her, she insistently pointed out the tower of the bell tower, as showing her something worth admiring."Why don't you fall?" She asked him.He says that this question and then the buildings of the buildings promoted him to be a civil engineer.
To "the grandmother Lola" inherited her blue eyes and the methodical being.But above all, from her learned the saying that according to him, a successful builder did: "Mijo, work with the poor and will become rich."
