The Most Excellent María Clemencia Rodríguez Múnera |
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María Clemencia Rodríguez Múnera in January 2014
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First Lady of Colombia | |
Assumed office 7 August 2010 |
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President | Juan Manuel Santos |
Preceded by | Lina María Moreno Mejía |
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Born |
Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia |
13 November 1955
Nationality | Colombian |
Political party | Party of the U (2005-present) |
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Children |
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Residence | Palace of Nariño (official) |
Profession | Graphic Designer |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
María Clemencia "Tutina" Rodríguez Múnera (born 13 November 1955) is the wife of the 32nd and current President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, and serves as First Lady of Colombia since 2010.
María Clemencia was born on 13 November 1955 in Bucaramanga, Santander to Jorge Rodríguez Rodríguez and his wife Cecilia Múnera Cambas. She is the sixth of eight children.
On 11 December 1982 she married Christian Toro Ibler, a respected and well known Colombian publicist, in a Roman Catholic ceremony that took place at the Church of Our Lady of the Waters in Bogotá officiated by Fr Jesús Adán Londoño Rodas and attended by, among others, the then-President Belisario Betancur Cuartas and First Lady Rosa Helena Álvarez Yepes who were not only the guests of honour, but also the godparents of the couple for the ceremony. The marriage however, did not last long and the couple divorced shortly after.
In 1987 she married Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, then Deputy Director of El Tiempo, this time in a civil ceremony.