María Cristina Arango Vega
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The Most Excellent María Cristina Arango Vega |
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| First Lady of Colombia | |
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In role 7 August 1970 – 7 August 1974 |
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| Preceded by | Cecilia de la Fuente Cortés |
| Succeeded by | Cecilia Caballero Blanco |
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| Born |
October 15, 1928 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Died | September 15, 2017 (aged 88) Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Misael Pastrana Borrero (m. 1951; d. 1997) |
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María Cristina Arango Vega (15 October 1928 – 15 September 2017) was the widow of the 23rd President of Colombia, Misael Pastrana Borrero, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1970 to 1974. She was also the mother of the 30th President Andrés Pastrana Arango.
María Cristina was born in Bogotá to Carlos Arango Vélez, a Liberal party politician, and his wife María Vega Jaramillo.
In 1946, while her father was serving as Ambassador of Colombia to the Holy See, she met Misael Pastrana Borrero, 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, Jaime, and María Cristina. She died in Bogota on 15 September 2017 at the age of 88.
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