Marta Lucía Ramírez

Politician

Marta Lucía Ramírez was born in Zipaquirá, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia on July 4th, 1954 and is the Politician. At the age of 69, Marta Lucía Ramírez biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
July 4, 1954
Nationality
Colombia
Place of Birth
Zipaquirá, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia
Age
69 years old
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Profession
Diplomat, Model, Politician, President Of Colombia
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Marta Lucía Ramírez Religion, Education, and Hobbies
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Education
Pontifical Xavierian University (LLB, 1975), Center for International Affairs (Fellow, 1996–1997)
Marta Lucía Ramírez Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Álvaro Rincón ​(m. 1984)​
Children
María Alejandra Rincón Ramírez
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Marta Lucía Ramírez Life

Martha Luca Ramrez Blanco (born in Zipaquira, 1954) is Colombian lawyer, politician, and Colombia's new Vice President. Ramrez, Colombia's elected senator in 2006, introduced legislation to encourage women to obtain the rank of General in the Military Forces of Colombia, and to require English instruction in schools.

Ramrez was Colombia's first female Minister of National Defence from 2002 to 2003, and the second woman in Latin America to hold this rank.

She has also served as Colombia's sixth Minister of Foreign Trade 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 behind eventual Conservative nominee Noem Sann Posada.

She ran for the Conservative nomination once more in 2014, this time winning the nomination but then finishing third in the first round of the 2014 presidential election.

Ramirez is also a Washington, D.C. resident.

The Inter-American Dialogue, a think tank based in the United States, was founded in 2018. Ramrez became Colombia's first female Vice President in 2018, winning on a ticket with Iván Duque Márquez.

Personal life

Ramrez was born in Zipaquira, Colombia, on July 4th, 1954, to lvaro Ramrez Suárez and Alba Blanco Venturoli, the eldest and only child of their four children's four children. Mara Alejandra, a Colombian architect, was married in 1974 by lvaro Rincón, a Colombian architect; together they have one daughter, Mara Alejandra. She is of Italian descent through her mother, and through her father, she is linked to Jes Ramrez Suárez, her uncle, who served as the Chamber Representative for Cundinamarca.

She holds a bachelor's degree in Legal Sciences and Socioeconomics, as well as postgraduate diplomas in Financial Law from the University of the Andes and in Business Management from La Sabana's INALDE Business School. She received a fellowship from Harvard University's Center for International Affairs in 1996, focusing on the Colombian economy's internationalization in the context of the emergence of regional blocs and industrial and commercial integration.

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Marta Lucía Ramírez Career

Career

Ramirez, the Noemi Sanin's campaign manager who ran for office in 1998, returned to Colombia in 1997. When Sanin dropped out, the new president Andres Pastrana appointed Ramirez as Minister of Foreign Trade from 1998 to 2002. In several polls, she was rated as the best minister of Pastrana's cabinet during this period. Colombia's most notable accomplishments included the development and implementation of a 10-year Strategic Plan for exports, competitiveness, and entrepreneurship. Ramirez was appointed as the Colombian ambassador to France at the end of Pastrana's term. Alvaro Uribe was elected President and named Ramirez as his Defence Minister, just four months after.

Ramrez was then named as the ambassador of Colombia in France for a few months in 2002. Ramrez returned to Colombia after being elected as President of Colombia by lvaro Uribe.

Marta Lucia Ramirez was the 20th Minister of National Defence in Latin America, the second woman to hold this position in Latin America after Michelle Bachelet, who later became Chile's President. Ramirez served as Defense Minister from 2002 to 2003. Her most significant contributions to Alvaro Uribe's government included the creation and implementation of a 10-year Democratic Security Policy and her emphasis on civilian control over the military in order to ensure the military's effectiveness and legitimacy in the war against the Colombian guerrillas, paramilitaries, and narcotrafickers. During her time in the Defence Ministry, she designed and implemented a massive demobilization scheme for rebels, which focuses on young guerrillas to combat the FARC's child soldiers. She also implemented the protection of Colombian roads under President Uribe's leadership through the implementation of "Live Colombia travel through it" and created a policy focusing on transparency and efficiency in the military procurement process. In order to support the military fight against terrorism in urban settings, she has also initiated a group of civilian advisors to implement a reform in the Colombian Police. Ramirez became a private consultant in trade and security after serving as a Minister of Defense. She later became an advisor for the World Trade Organisation, where she was appointed Chairwoman for the panel of experts on the Airbus-Boeing Trade panel. In 2006, she resigned to run for the Colombian Senate, where she was elected with a slew of opinion votes in the United Party, a separate political party in Uribe's government.

In the Colombian Senate, he was elected President of the International Affairs and Defense Commission. 1253/08 law for Colombian competitiveness; 1286/09 Constitution for Science and Innovation; 1190/09 bill in favour of displaced people and different bills for public universities, women's rights, bilingual education, and even proposed political control debates in the executive branch; 1286/09 bill for Science Technology and Innovation. She orchestrated dissidence with Gina Parody and Nicolas Uribe due to her critics' lack of clientelism and corruption within the organization. Ramirez later announced that she was against a third election of Alvaro Uribe as a Colombian president, and she decided to resign from the party and Congress. She ran for president of Colombia in 2010 as a candidate for the Colombian presidency, a group to which she now belongs.

In 2016, she and Nigeria Renteria Lozano were appointed as peace negotiators with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Various organizations had requested that the UN Women's director and a Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations to intervene to get women elected. At that time, FARC was fighting for 50 years and killed 600,000 civilians.

Ramrez, Colombia's first female vice president, was elected alongside former Senator Iván Duque Márquez on June 17th. She took over the role of chairwoman on August 7, 2018.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia, Ramrez tested positive for COVID-19 but it was asymptomatic, becoming Colombia's highest Colombian official to be infected.

Ramrez resigned as vice president after Francia Márquez was proclaimed as vice president on August 7th, 2022, but Lvaro Leyva was installed as foreign minister.

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