Marta Lucía Ramírez

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Marta Lucía Ramírez, 2012

Marta Lucía Ramírez Blanco (born July 4, 1954 in Zipaquirá , Cundinamarca ) is a prominent Colombian lawyer, politician, senator (2006 to 2009) and former presidential candidate of the Partido Conservador Colombiano ( Colombian Conservative Party ). She was deputy minister of foreign trade from 1991 to 1993, foreign trade minister from 1998 to 2002, ambassador of Colombia to France in 2002, first female defense minister between 2002 and 2003, and she fought vehemently against the armed groups.

biography

youth

In his youth, Ramírez was a well-known model in Colombia. Ramírez holds a PhD in law and social economics from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá . In 2010 she wrote a book in aid of American defense cooperation with the Colombian government. As president of the Coalición para la Promoción de la Industria Colombiana , she published other books.

Marta Lucía Ramírez has been active in her country's politics since the early 1990s. In 2002, Ramirez became the second woman in Latin American history to be appointed Secretary of Defense . Ramirez, a lawyer, began her career in 1975 in the Banking Regulatory Office. Three years later she became director of central bank control.

Political career

After becoming director of the Instituto Colombiano de Comercio Exterior (Incomex) from 1990 to 1991, she started in politics when she was appointed deputy foreign trade minister, a position she held for two years. In 1993, Ramirez returned to the private sector and started her own law firm, Marta Lucia Ramirez de Rincon and Associates . From 1997 to 1998 she was executive president of the Inversiones de Gases de Colombia . After that, Ramirez was appointed Minister of Foreign Trade by former President Andres Pastrana Arango .

In 2002 she became Colombia's ambassador to France, but returned home to become Minister of Defense after the election of Álvaro Uribe .

In 2006, Ramirez took her first elected office after receiving the fourth highest number of votes as a candidate for the powerful Partido Social de Unidad Nacional , largely due to her roots in Cundinamarca and Bogotá, where she received almost half of her electoral votes. But three years later, Ramirez's election was annulled for violating Colombian electoral law. She worked for the state six months before the election, which was not allowed.

As a candidate for the 2014 presidential election in Colombia , she finished third at the end of the first round with 15.53% of the vote. After the 2014 elections, Ramírez joined a political minority that had spoken out against the peace treaty with the FARC , did not reject the peace talks, but maintained a critical stance towards the concessions to the FARC.

She was a candidate for the 2018 presidential election in Colombia . However, in March 2018, it announced a cooperation with Iván Duques election campaign and urged voters to the Conservative Party, Iván Duque to join.

Web links

Commons : Martha Lucía Ramírez Blanco  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cuando Marta Lucía Ramírez tenía las piernas más cotizadas de Colombia las2orillas.co, accessed on March 19, 2018 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Short biography congresovisible.org, accessed on March 19, 2018 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Marta Lucía Ramírez solicitó al Partido Conservador unirse a Iván Duque elpais.com.co, accessed on March 19, 2018 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Ramírez, Marta Lucía
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Zipaquirá , Cundinamarca , Colombia