Lina Moreno de Uribe
First Lady of Colombia
In role 7 August 2002  ( 2002-08-07 )  ? 7 August 2010  ( 2010-08-07 )
President	Alvaro Uribe
Preceded by	Nohra Puyana de Pastrana
Succeeded by	Maria Clemencia de Santos
First Lady of Antioquia
In office 1 January 1995  ( 1995-01-01 )  ? 1 January 1998  ( 1998-01-01 )
Governor	Alvaro Uribe
Preceded by	Margarita Duque
Succeeded by	Lina Bustamante
First Lady of Medellin
In office 26 August 1982  ( 1982-08-26 )  ? 16 December 1982  ( 1982-12-16 )
Mayor	Alvaro Uribe
Preceded by	Lina Maria Velez
Succeeded by	Cecilia Uribe
Personal details
Born	Lina Maria Moreno Mejia ( 1955-12-04 ) 4 December 1955 (age 68) Medellin, Antioquia , Colombia
Political party	Democratic Center
Spouse	Alvaro Uribe ​ ( m.  1979) ​
Children	Tomas Jeronimo
Alma mater	Pontifical Bolivarian University ( B.Phil. )

Lina Maria Moreno de Uribe CYC ( nee : Moreno Mejia ; 13 November 1955) is the wife of the 31st president of Colombia Alvaro Uribe Velez , and served as First Lady of Colombia from 2002 to 2010.

Personal life [ edit ]

Lina Maria Moreno Mejia was born on 13 November 1955 in Medellin , Antioquia , to Dario Moreno Restrepo (b. 9 October 1920) and Marina Mejia Mejia (1 August 1929 ? 21 June 1997), ^{[1] [2]} the youngest and only daughter, she has one older brother named Carlos Enrique (b. 13 December 1953).

She met Alvaro Uribe Velez, a 26-year Law graduate from the University of Antioquia , at the age of 23 in March 1979 by chance when she was walking with a friend in Medellin. ^[3] After a very short romance, the two became engaged, and on 1 December 1979 they got married. ^[4] She had dropped out of the Pontifical Bolivarian University to raise her children where she was studying literature and linguistics, but returned in 1986 and eventually graduated from it with a Bachelor of Philosophy .

Moreno and Uribe have two children: Tomas (b. 19 April 1981) a chemical engineer from the University of the Andes who is married (26 July 2008) ^[5] to Isabel Sofia Cabrales Baquero (b. 17 July 1979), ^[6] a Political Scientist from the Pontifical Xavierian University , former model and First Runner-Up at the Miss Colombia 2002 and who is expecting their first child; and Jeronimo Alberto (b. 16 July 1983) an Economist from the University of the Andes who is married (21 April 2012) to Shadia Farah Abuchaibe, a communications graduate from the Pontifical Xavierian University . ^{[7] [8]}

First Lady of Colombia (2002?2010) [ edit ]

Despite the long political career of her husband, she chose to remain distant from the political sphere and campaigns, often drawing attention only for " her sobriety, her detachment from power and her directness ". ^[9] Months prior to her husband taking office, Moreno said in an interview that she would prefer not like to use the style of First Lady , referring to it as " petulant and pink ", ^[10] pointing out that the title has been overused in that " there are many: that of the nation, of the department, of the municipality... ", ^[10] and stating that she would have liked to be addressed solely as " Lina Maria Moreno, wife of Alvaro Uribe ", ^[10] but establishing that that did not meant she was the sounding board of Uribe. ^[10]

On 11 April 2002, following the election of her husband in the 2002 presidential election , Clara Lia Mora and Clara Elena Moreno Mora, Moreno's aunt and first-cousin respectively, were kidnapped from their home in the Caldas, Antioquia at gunpoint. They were later rescued in a joint effort between the National Police and the 4th Brigade of the National Army , but during the operation the assailants shot Mrs Mora on the chest seriously injuring her; both mother and daughter were treated and successfully recovered, but it put pressure on authorities to take higher security precautions in the following months before and after the inauguration.

In 2005, in an interview for El Tiempo , she told Yamid Amat that she was for the decriminalization of abortion , but still opposed to its legalization , a move that although not radical, contradicted the official position of the State and of the President. ^[11]

Honours [ edit ]

•   Spain :
  • Dame Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (2005).

References [ edit ]