Judith Pinedo Flórez, also known as "Mariamulata", is a Colombian lawyer and politician born in the city of

Cartagena de Indias Cartagena ( ), known since the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias (), is a city and one of the major ports on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Region of Colombia, Caribbean Coast Region, along the Caribbean Sea. Cartagena's past ...

; she was elected mayor of that city for the period 2008 to 2011. Her rival was Juan Carlos Gossain who was considered as a continuator of the policies of Mayor Nicolás Curi, who had been involved in several corruption scandals, thus she became the first woman to be popularly elected in her city as mayor, where, in addition, never before had an independent politician been able to win the first position.

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