Nohra Puyana Bickenbach
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The Most Excellent Nohra Puyana Bickenbach |
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Nohra Puyana in 1993 by Mauricio Mendoza for Cromos.
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| First Lady of Colombia | |
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In office 7 August 1998 – 7 August 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Jacquin Strouss Lucena |
| Succeeded by | Lina María Moreno Mejía |
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29 May 1955 Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Andrés Pastrana Arango (1981–present) |
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| Alma mater | École française des attachés de presse (BJ) |
| Profession | Journalist |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Nohra Puyana Bickenbach (born 29 May 1955) is the wife of the 30th President of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana Arango, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1998 to 2002.
Nohra was born in Medellín, Antioquia on 29 May 1955 to Eduardo Puyana Rodríguez and Alicia Bickenbach Plata. Nohra, the eldest of four children has two brothers, Eduardo and David, and one sister Laura. At a young age the family moved to Bogotá, and she attended the New Granada School where she finished her primary education and then attended the Marymount School where she finished her secondary education, and afterwards travel to France where she studied journalism at the École Française des Attachés de Presse in Paris. After college, Puyana worked for the French magazine Elle, for Christian Dior, and for the UNESCO Press Corps.
In 1978 back in Colombia, she met Andrés Pastrana Arango, a lawyer and then Director of Guión magazine, and the son of former President of Colombia Misael Pastrana Borrero and his wife and former First Lady María Cristina Arango Vega; they were introduced at a corrida de toros in Cartagena de Indias by Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, a mutual friend of the Puyanas and the Pastranas. They met again later that year at a new year's party and they started dating shortly after. They were married in a Roman Catholic ceremony on 20 March 1981 at the Church of Saint Peter Claver in Cartagena. Together they have three children: Santiago (born 18 December 1982), Laura (born 11 May 1985), and Valentina (born 25 April 1996).
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