Marta Lucía Ramírez
| Marta Lucía Ramírez Blanco | |
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Ramírez in 2012.
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| Senator of Colombia | |
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In office 20 July 2006 – 9 July 2009 |
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| 20th Minister of National Defence of Colombia | |
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In office 7 August 2002 – 9 November 2003 |
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| President | Álvaro Uribe Vélez |
| Preceded by | Gustavo Bell Lemus |
| Succeeded by | Jorge Alberto Uribe Echavarría |
| 21st Colombia Ambassador to France | |
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In office 1 February 2002 – 25 July 2002 |
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| President | Andrés Pastrana Arango |
| Preceded by | Juan Camilo Restrepo Salazar |
| Succeeded by | Miguel Gómez Martínez |
| 6th Minister of Foreign Trade of Colombia | |
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In office 7 August 1998 – 1 February 2002 |
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| President | Andrés Pastrana Arango |
| Preceded by | Carlos Ronderos Torres |
| Succeeded by | Ángela María Orozco Gómez |
| 1st Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade of Colombia | |
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In office 14 November 1991 – 12 February 1993 |
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| President | César Gaviria Trujillo |
| Succeeded by | Juan José Echavarría Soto |
| Personal details | |
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4 July 1954 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Other political affiliations |
Party of the U (2006—2009) |
| Spouse(s) | Álvaro Rincón (1984—present) |
| Children | María Alejandra Rincón Ramírez |
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| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Website | www |
Martha Lucía Ramírez Blanco (born 4 July 1954) is a Colombian lawyer and politician.
Elected Senator of Colombia in 2006, Ramírez introduced legislative initiatives to permit women to attain the rank of General in the Military Forces of Colombia, and to mandate English teaching in schools. Ramírez was Colombia’s first female Minister of National Defence, serving from 2002 to 2003 in the administration of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, and the second woman in Latin America to hold this title. She has also served as the 6th Minister of Foreign Trade of Colombia, from 1998 to 2002.
In 2009 she resigned from the Senate to run as a candidate for the 2010 Conservative Party's presidential nomination, finishing third to the eventual Conservative nominee Noemí Sanín Posada. In 2014, she once again ran for the Conservative nomination, this time winning the nomination, but ultimately finishing third in the first round of the 2014 presidential election. Ramirez is also a member of Washington D.C. based think tank, The Inter-American Dialogue.
Ramírez was born on 4 July 1954 in Bogotá, Colombia to Álvaro Ramírez Suárez and Alba Blanco Venturoli, the eldest and only daughter of their four children. In 1974 she married Álvaro Rincón, a Colombian architect; together they have one daughter, María Alejandra. She is of Italian descent through her mother, and thorough her father, she is related to Jesús Ramírez Suárez, her uncle, who served as Chamber Representative for Cundinamarca.
A lawyer from the Pontifical Xavierian University, she holds a specialization degree in Legal Sciences and Socioeconomics, and postgraduate specialisations in Financial Law from the University of the Andes, and in Business Management from La Sabana's INALDE Business School. In 1996 she received a fellowship from Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, focusing on the internationalisation of the Colombian economy in the context of the rise of regional blocks and economic and commercial integration.
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