Luisa Durán de la Fuente (born 27 February 1941) is the wife of the former

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Ricardo Lagos Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (; born 2 March 1938) is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was a well-known opponent of the Chilean military di ...

. She was First Lady of Chile during her husband's tenure (2000-2006).

Personal life

Durán was born to Hernán Durán Morales and Luisa de la Fuente Tavolara. She studied at the

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school in Santiago and the Number 7 High School of Providencia.

Public life

During her time as First Lady, she preferred to be referred to as the ''President's wife''. After the end of Lagos presidency, she was appointed executive director of the Youth and Children's Orchestras Foundation of Chile (2007-2010), and board member of Centro Cultural Matucana 100 and the Cultural Corporation of

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. In 2013 she took over as director of the Corporación Cultural de Santiago. In 2017 she returned to the public arena, regarding her spouse's presidential pre-candidacy, declaring in an interview that she had apprehensions regarding Lagos' decision, in order "not to have to be on the spot again, and to have this permanent bullying". In October 2018 she resigned from the Party for Democracy.

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