Colombian Businessman Carlos Ardila Lulle Dies Age 91

A plant run by Central Cervecera de Colombia, one of the companies owned by the late industrialist Carlos Ardilla Lulle, in Sesquilé, Colombia, in this 2019 file photo. Google Maps/Screenshot via The Epoch Times

BOGOTA—Carlos Ardila Lulle, one of Colombia’s richest businessmen and owner of a conglomerate including sugar mills, broadcasters, and a soccer team, died on Friday of natural causes aged 91 years old, the company said.

Ardila Lulle, who was born in 1930 in the city of Bucaramanga, died in a hospital in Cali, Colombia’s third-largest city, located in the southeast of the country.