María Cristina Arango Vega

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.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Arango and the second or maternal family name is Vega.
The Most Excellent
María Cristina Arango
First Lady of Colombia
In role
7 August 1970 (1970-08-07) – 7 August 1974 (1974-08-07)
Preceded byCecilia de la Fuente Cortés
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

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. ISBN 9789588281223.
  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.
  6. "Pesar por muerte de la madre de expresidente Andrés Pastrana". 15 September 2017.
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