The Most Excellent
María Cristina Arango
First Lady of Colombia
In role
7 August 1970 (1970-08-07) – 7 August 1974 (1974-08-07)
PresidentMisael Pastrana Borrero
Preceded byCecilia de la Fuente de Lleras
Succeeded byCecilia Caballero Blanco
Personal details
Born(1928-10-15)October 15, 1928
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
DiedSeptember 15, 2017(2017-09-15) (aged 88)
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Political partyLiberal
Spouse
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(m. 1951; died 1997)​
Children

María Cristina Arango Vega (15 October 1928[1] – 15 September 2017) was the First Lady of Colombia from 1970 to 1974 as the wife of the 23rd President of Colombia, Misael Pastrana Borrero.[2] Arango was also the mother of the 30th President Andrés Pastrana.

Personal life

María Cristina was born in Bogotá to Carlos Arango Vélez, a Liberal party politician and presidential candidate,[3] and his wife María Vega Jaramillo.[2]

In 1946, while her father was serving as Ambassador of Colombia to the Holy See, she met Misael Pastrana Borrero, who was working as a diplomat in the embassy.[4] They got engaged that year and married on 24 February 1951 at the Saint Bartholomew School's Madonna Della Strada Chapel in Bogotá.[5] Together they had four children, Juan Carlos, Andrés, Jaime, and María Cristina. She died in Bogota on 15 September 2017 at the age of 88.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Arango, María Cristina de (2006). Publicaciones periódicas en Antioquia 1814-1960: Del chibalete a la rotativa. Universidad Eafit. ISBN 9789588281223.
  2. 1 2 Ríos Peñaloza, Gilma (1 August 1996). "Primeras Damas del Siglo XX" [First Ladies of the 20th Century]. Credencial Historia (in Spanish). Bogotá: Colombia, Bank of the Republic (80). ISSN 0121-3296. OCLC 39236834. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
  3. ↑ Semana (1998-09-07). "LA PRIMERA MADRE". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-05-04.
  4. ↑ "Pastrana Borrero, Misael". Current Biography Yearbook. The Bronx: H. W. Wilson Company. 32: 316. 1972. ISSN 0084-9499. OCLC 1565606. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
  5. ↑ Ágredo Tobar, Reinaldo (2007-12-27). Notas Biográficas y Genealógicas (in Spanish). Bogotá. p. 14. Retrieved 4 November 2012.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ↑ "Pesar por muerte de la madre de expresidente Andrés Pastrana". 15 September 2017.


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