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Nydia Quintero Turbay
First Lady of Colombia from 1978 to 1982 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nydia Quintero Turbay de Balcázar (born 28 August 1932[a]) is a Colombian civic leader and philanthropist who served as First Lady of Colombia from 1978 to 1982 due to her marriage to President Julio César Turbay Ayala.[1][1]
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Born in Neiva, Huila, Quintero is the founder of the Solidarity for Colombia Foundation, which she founded in 1975.[2] She was married to her first cousin, Julio César Turbay Ayala. She is one of the most influential first ladies of Colombia.
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Personal life
She was born on 28 August 1932 in Neiva, Huila to Jorge Quintero Céspedes and Adhalía Turbay Ayala. She is of Lebanese and Basque descent. She attended La Presentación in Neiva where she lived until the death of her father when she moved to Bogotá to study at the Liceo Nacional Femenino Antonia Santos.[1] On 18 May 1948, against the wishes of her family, she married her maternal uncle Julio César Turbay Ayala in a clandestine wedding in a Roman Catholic ceremony at Santa Teresita Church in Bogotá.[1] From their marriage they had four children: Julio César, Diana Consuelo, Claudia, and María Victoria.[3] She divorced her husband in 1983[4] after his term as president of Colombia and hers as first lady had ended, and remarried the following year in 1984 to Gustavo Balcázar Monzón,[1] her marriage to former President Turbay Ayala was annulled by the Catholic Church in 1986.
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Honour
Spain: Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic[5]
Notes
- Name prior to her marriage: Nydia Quintero Turbay, formerly Nydia Quintero de Turbay, later change to Nydia Quintero Turbay de Balcázar her current name.
References
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