María Cristina Arango Vega

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Arango and the second or maternal family name is Vega.

María Cristina Arango Vega (15 October 1928^[1] – 15 September 2017) was the First Lady of Colombia from 1970 to 1974 as the wife of the 23rd President of Colombia, Misael Pastrana Borrero.^[2] Arango was also the mother of the 30th President Andrés Pastrana.

María Cristina Arango
First Lady of Colombia
In role 7 August 1970 (1970-08-07) – 7 August 1974 (1974-08-07)
President	Misael Pastrana Borrero
Preceded by	Cecilia de la Fuente de Lleras
Succeeded by	Cecilia Caballero Blanco
Personal details
Born	(1928-10-15)October 15, 1928 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Died	September 15, 2017(2017-09-15) (aged 88) Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Misael Pastrana Borrero ​ ​ (m. 1951; died 1997)​
Children	Juan Carlos Pastrana Arango Andrés Pastrana Arango Jaime Pastrana Arango Cristina Pastrana Arango

Personal life

María Cristina was born in Bogotá to Carlos Arango Vélez, a Liberal party politician and presidential candidate,^[3] and his wife María Vega Jaramillo.^[2]

In 1946, while her father was serving as Ambassador of Colombia to the Holy See, she met Misael Pastrana Borrero, who was working as a diplomat in the embassy.^[4] They got engaged that year and married on 24 February 1951 at the Saint Bartholomew School's Madonna Della Strada Chapel in Bogotá.^[5] Together they had four children, Juan Carlos, Andrés, Jaime, and María Cristina. She died in Bogota on 15 September 2017 at the age of 88.^[6]

See also

• First Lady of Colombia