María Cristina Arango Vega (15 October 1928 – 15 September 2017) was the

First Lady of Colombia First Lady of Colombia (First Lady of the Nation) is the title held by the hostess of the Casa de Nariño, generally the wife of the president of Colombia, coinciding with the president's tenure. The role of the first lady has never been codifie ...

from 1970 to 1974 as the wife of the 23rd

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Misael Pastrana Borrero Misael Eduardo Pastrana Borrero (14 November 1923 – 21 August 1997) was a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the 23rd President of Colombia from 1970 to 1974. He was also the father of the 30th President Andrés Pastrana Arango. ...

. Arango was also the mother of the 30th President

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Personal life

María Cristina was born in Bogotá to

Carlos Arango Vélez Carlos Arango Vélez (Bogotá, February 13, 1897 – Bogotá, ''ibidem'', October 12, 1974), was a Colombian Jurist and Colombian Liberal Party, Liberal Party Politician. He held several public offices like the Mayor of Bogotá (1935–1936), ...

, a

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politician and presidential candidate, and his wife María Vega Jaramillo. In 1946, while her father was serving as Ambassador of Colombia to the Holy See, she met

, who was working as a diplomat in the embassy. They got engaged that year and married on 24 February 1951 at the Saint Bartholomew School's Madonna Della Strada Chapel in Bogotá. Together they had four children, Juan Carlos,

Andrés Andres or Andrés may refer to: *Andres, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Will County, Illinois, US *Andres, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in Pas-de-Calais, France *Andres (name) *Hurricane Andres *Andres (song), "Andres" (song), a 1994 song b ...

, Jaime, and María Cristina. She died in Bogota on 15 September 2017 at the age of 88.

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