Luisa Durán de la Fuente (born 27 February 1941) is the wife of the former
President of Chile 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 dic ...
. She was
First Lady of Chile
The First Lady of Chile ( es, Primera Dama de Chile) is the title for the wife of the president of Chile, who is traditionally responsible for directing and coordinating activities in the social field of the presidency and also accompany the pres ...
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
Alliance Française
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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
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...
.
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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Chilean people of Italian descent
Chilean agnostics
First Ladies of Chile
Living people
People from Santiago
1941 births
Dames Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
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