Nohra Puyana de Pastrana

Nohra Puyana de Pastrana
Nohra Puyana de Pastrana
	Nohra Puyana in 1993 by Mauricio Mendoza for Cromos .
First Lady of Colombia
	In role ; 7 August 1998 ? 7 August 2002
President	Andres Pastrana
Preceded by	Jacquin Strouss Lucena
Succeeded by	Lina Moreno de Uribe
First Lady of Bogota
	In office ; 1 January 1988 ? 1 January 1990
Mayor	Andres Pastrana
Preceded by	Clara Isabel Pinillos
Succeeded by	Lia de Roux de Caicedo
Personal details
Born	Nohra Puyana Bickenbach ; 29 May 1955 (age 69) ; Medellin, Antioquia , Colombia
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Andres Pastrana ( m. 1981)
Children	Santiago ; Laura ; Valentina ;
Alma mater	Ecole francaise des attaches de presse ( BJ )
Profession	Journalist

Nohra Puyana de Pastrana ^[1] (born Nohra Puyana Bickenbach ; 29 May 1955) ^[2] is the wife of the 30th president of Colombia , Andres Pastrana , and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1998 to 2002.

Personal life [ edit ]

Nohra was born in Medellin , Antioquia ^[3] on 29 May 1955 to Eduardo Puyana Rodriguez and Alicia Bickenbach Plata. ^[4] Nohra, the eldest of four children has two brothers, Eduardo and David, and one sister Laura. ^[3] At a young age the family moved to Bogota , 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 Ecole Francaise des Attaches de Presse in Paris. ^[5] After college, Puyana worked for the French magazine Elle , for Christian Dior , and for the UNESCO Press Corps. ^[5]

In 1978 back in Colombia, she met Andres Pastrana Arango , a lawyer and then Director of Guion magazine, and the son of former President of Colombia Misael Pastrana Borrero and his wife and former First Lady Maria Cristina Arango Vega ; ^[6]^[7] they were introduced at a corrida de toros in Cartagena de Indias by Juan Manuel Santos Calderon , a mutual friend of the Puyanas and the Pastranas. ^[6]^[7] They met again later that year at a new year's party and they started dating shortly after. ^[6] They were married in a Roman Catholic ceremony on 20 March 1981 at the Church of Saint Peter Claver in Cartagena. ^[8] Together they have three children: Santiago (born 18 December 1982), ^[8] Laura (born 11 May 1985), ^[8] and Valentina (born 25 April 1996). ^[9]

Living through Colombian armed conflict , Puyana had to endure the tragedy that beset her family during the wave of kidnappings in Colombia during the late 1980s, the whole of the 1990s, and early 2000s. On 18 January 1988 her husband, who was running to become mayor of Bogota, was kidnapped in Antioquia by the Medellin Cartel in an effort to put pressure on the Government and prevent the extradition of Pablo Escobar and other drug lords to the United States; he was finally released a week later. On 9 April 1991, her 62-year-old father, Eduardo Puyana Rodriguez, was kidnapped while driving his car in Bogota. ^[10] His body was found on 2 April 1993 buried on a farm in the outskirts of the town of Victoria, Caldas and it was determined he had been killed a year earlier by his captors. ^[10] On 27 December 2002, her maternal uncle, businessman Helmut Bickenbach Plata (age 69), and his wife Doris Ines Gil Santamaria (age 63), a former Miss Colombia , were kidnapped from their home in Nocaima by the FARC and held captive for ransom . ^[11] They were later killed by the guerrillas on 23 June 2003 during a confrontation with the Colombian Army . ^[12]

References [ edit ]

^ "El polemico argumento de la exprimera dama Nohra Puyana de Pastrana para oponerse a proyecto en el parque El Japon" . semana.com . 31 January 2019 . Retrieved 12 April 2023 .
^ "Dos Esposas de Primera" [Two First Wives]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). Bogota. 6 April 1994. ISSN 0121-9987 . OCLC 28894254 . Retrieved 3 November 2012 .
^ ^a ^b "Entre diseno, historia y economia, el perfil de las primeras damas" . La Republica (in Spanish). Bogota. 7 August 2014 . Retrieved 13 April 2016 .
^ Garcia Vasquez, Julio Cesar. "1.3 Andres Pastrana Arango, Familiares y Parentela" [1.3 Andres Pastrana Arango, Relatives and Kin]. Genealogia Colombiana [ Colombian Genealogy ] (Family tree) (in Spanish). Bogota: Interconexion Colombia . Retrieved 1 June 2012 .
^ ^a ^b "Juego de Damas" [Ladies' Game]. Semana (in Spanish). Bogota. 16 May 1994. ISSN 0124-5473 . OCLC 7475329 . Retrieved 1 June 2012 .
^ ^a ^b ^c Aguirre Acosta, Diamilia Rocio (23 May 1998). "Nohra, La Devota de Andres" [Nohra, The Devout of Andres]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). Bogota. ISSN 0121-9987 . OCLC 28894254 .
^ ^a ^b "200 Anos de Amores" [200 Years of Love]. Cromos (in Spanish). Bogota. 19 July 2010. ISSN 0011-1708 . OCLC 7682578 .
^ ^a ^b ^c Testimonio De Una Trayectoria [ Testimony of a Trayectory ] (in Spanish). Bogota: Pastrana Arango, Andres; Presidential Campaign of. 1994. pp. 12?13 . Retrieved 1 June 2012 .
^ "Nueva Fuerza Familiar" [New Family Force]. Semana (in Spanish). Bogota. 3 June 1996. ISSN 0124-5473 . OCLC 7475329 . Retrieved 1 June 2012 .
^ ^a ^b "Captores Mataron A E Puyana" [Captors Killed E Puyana]. El Tiempo . Bogota. 3 April 1993. ISSN 0121-9987 . OCLC 28894254 . Retrieved 1 June 2012 .
^ "Colombia Indignada Por La Muerte de Rehenes" [Colombia Indignant for the Death of Hostages]. El Nuevo Herald (in Spanish). Miami. 23 June 2003. p. 1B. OCLC 4226997 .
^ "FARC Asesinaron A Helmut Bickenbach Y La Senora Doris Gil de Bickenbach" [FARC Assassinates Helmut Bickenbach And Mrs Doris Gil de Bickenbach] (in Spanish). Bogota: Colombia, Press Office of the President (SNE) . 24 June 2003 . Retrieved 1 June 2012 .

Honorary titles
Preceded by Clara Isabel Pinillos	First Lady of Bogota 1988-1990	Succeeded by Lia de Roux de Caicedo
Preceded by Jacquin Strouss Lucena	First Lady of Colombia 1998?2002	Succeeded by Lina Moreno de Uribe

[1] "El polemico argumento de la exprimera dama Nohra Puyana de Pastrana para oponerse a proyecto en el parque El Japon" . semana.com . 31 January 2019 . Retrieved 12 April 2023 .

[2] "Dos Esposas de Primera" [Two First Wives]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). Bogota. 6 April 1994. ISSN 0121-9987 . OCLC 28894254 . Retrieved 3 November 2012 .

[inter-3] "Entre diseno, historia y economia, el perfil de las primeras damas" . La Republica (in Spanish). Bogota. 7 August 2014 . Retrieved 13 April 2016 .

[inter2-4] Garcia Vasquez, Julio Cesar. "1.3 Andres Pastrana Arango, Familiares y Parentela" [1.3 Andres Pastrana Arango, Relatives and Kin]. Genealogia Colombiana [ Colombian Genealogy ] (Family tree) (in Spanish). Bogota: Interconexion Colombia . Retrieved 1 June 2012 .

[damas-5] "Juego de Damas" [Ladies' Game]. Semana (in Spanish). Bogota. 16 May 1994. ISSN 0124-5473 . OCLC 7475329 . Retrieved 1 June 2012 .

[agruirre-6] Aguirre Acosta, Diamilia Rocio (23 May 1998). "Nohra, La Devota de Andres" [Nohra, The Devout of Andres]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). Bogota. ISSN 0121-9987 . OCLC 28894254 .

[cromos-7] "200 Anos de Amores" [200 Years of Love]. Cromos (in Spanish). Bogota. 19 July 2010. ISSN 0011-1708 . OCLC 7682578 .

[promo-8] Testimonio De Una Trayectoria [ Testimony of a Trayectory ] (in Spanish). Bogota: Pastrana Arango, Andres; Presidential Campaign of. 1994. pp. 12?13 . Retrieved 1 June 2012 .

[9] "Nueva Fuerza Familiar" [New Family Force]. Semana (in Spanish). Bogota. 3 June 1996. ISSN 0124-5473 . OCLC 7475329 . Retrieved 1 June 2012 .

[dad-10] "Captores Mataron A E Puyana" [Captors Killed E Puyana]. El Tiempo . Bogota. 3 April 1993. ISSN 0121-9987 . OCLC 28894254 . Retrieved 1 June 2012 .

[11] "Colombia Indignada Por La Muerte de Rehenes" [Colombia Indignant for the Death of Hostages]. El Nuevo Herald (in Spanish). Miami. 23 June 2003. p. 1B. OCLC 4226997 .

[12] "FARC Asesinaron A Helmut Bickenbach Y La Senora Doris Gil de Bickenbach" [FARC Assassinates Helmut Bickenbach And Mrs Doris Gil de Bickenbach] (in Spanish). Bogota: Colombia, Press Office of the President (SNE) . 24 June 2003 . Retrieved 1 June 2012 .

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