Lina Moreno de Uribe

Lina María Moreno Mejía was born on 13 November 1955 in Medellín, Antioquia, to Darío Moreno Restrepo (b. 9 October 1920) and Marina Mejía Mejía (1 August 1929 — 21 June 1997),{{cite web|url=http://biblioteca-virtual-antioquia.udea.edu.co/pdf/974/974_0000000002.pdf |publisher=University of Antioquia |access-date=2012-04-10 |language=es |title=Genealogía de Álvaro Uribe Vélez Y Lina Moreno Mejía Y Sus Hijos Jerónimo Y Tomás |trans-title=Genealogy of Álvaro Uribe Vélez and Lina Moreno Mejía and Their Sons Jerónimo and Tomás |first=Iván |last=Restrepo Jaramillo |year=2003 |location=El Retiro, Antioquia |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609093853/http://biblioteca-virtual-antioquia.udea.edu.co/pdf/974/974_0000000002.pdf |archive-date=2007-06-09 }}{{cite journal |journal=El Colombiano |url=http://www.elcolombiano.com/BancoConocimiento/E/el_suegro_de_uribe/el_suegro_de_uribe.asp |issn=0122-0802 |first=Germán |last=Jiménez Morales |location=Medellín |date=2010-12-26 |access-date=2012-04-10 |language=es |oclc=37847519 |title=El Suegro de Uribe |trans-title=The Father-in-Law of Uribe}} the youngest and only daughter, she has one older brother named Carlos Enrique (b. 13 December 1953).

She met Álvaro Uribe Vélez, a 26-year Law graduate from the University of Antioquia, at the age of 23 in March 1979 by chance when she was walking with a friend in Medellín.{{cite journal |journal=El Tiempo |location=Bogotá |url=http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-1316028 |title=Paisa de Convicciones Firmes |trans-title=Paisa of Firm Convictions |date=2002-05-27 |access-date=2012-04-09 |language=es |first=Diego León |last=Giraldo Silva |issn=0121-9987 |oclc=28894254 }} After a very short romance, the two became engaged, and on 1 December 1979 they got married.{{cite journal |journal=Semana |location=Bogotá |url=http://www.semana.com/nacion/media-naranja/490-3.aspx |date=2002-05-26 |access-date=2012-04-09 |language=es |title=La Media Naranja |trans-title=The Other Half |issn=0124-5473 }} She had dropped out of the Pontifical Bolivarian University to raise her children where she was studying literature and linguistics, but returned in 1986 and eventually graduated from it with a Bachelor of Philosophy.

Moreno and Uribe have two children: Tomás (b. 19 April 1981) a chemical engineer from the University of the Andes who is married (26 July 2008){{cite journal |url=http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/CMS-4399230 |journal=El Tiempo |date=2010-07-28 |first1=Vicente Arcieri |last1=Gutiérrez |first2=Paola |last2=Villamarín |first3=Manuel |last3=Rincón Prada |first4=Luz Adriana |last4=Velasco |title=Así es Isabel Sofía Cabrales, la nuera del Presidente, quien este sábado se casó con Tomás Uribe |trans-title=Isabel Sofía Cabrales, the daughter-in-law of the President, who married this saturday Tomás Uribe |access-date=2012-04-17 |issn=0121-9987 |oclc=28894254}} to Isabel Sofía Cabrales Baquero (b. 17 July 1979),{{cite journal |url=http://www.elcolombiano.com/proyectos/Reinas/version2002/fichas_reinas/cartagena.htm |journal=El Colombiano |year=2002 |title=Señorita Cartagena |trans-title=Miss Cartagena |language=es |issn=0122-0802 }} a Political Scientist from the Pontifical Xavierian University, former model and First Runner-Up at the Miss Colombia 2002 and who is expecting their first child; and Jerónimo Alberto (b. 16 July 1983) an Economist from the University of the Andes who is married (21 April 2012) to Shadia Farah Abuchaibe, a communications graduate from the Pontifical Xavierian University.{{cite web |url=http://www.elheraldo.co/tendencias/hoy-matrimonio-de-shadia-farah-abuchaibe-y-jeronimo-uribe-64581 |title=Hoy, matrimonio de Shadia Farah Abuchaibe y Jerónimo Uribe |access-date=2013-03-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130410040229/http://www.elheraldo.co/tendencias/hoy-matrimonio-de-shadia-farah-abuchaibe-y-jeronimo-uribe-64581 |archive-date=2013-04-10 }}{{cite journal |title=Jerónimo Uribe y Shadia Farah se casarán el 21 de abril |trans-title=Jerónimo Uribe and Shadia Farah will be married on 21 April |journal=Jet-Set |location=Bogotá |language=es |issn=0123-7918 |access-date=2012-04-17 |url=http://m.jetset.com.co/que-pasa-con-noticias-chismes-del-jetset-nacional-e-internacional/articulo/jeronimo-uribe-shadia-farah-casaran-21-abril/47003}}

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Despite the long political career of her husband, she chose to remain distant from the political sphere and campaigns, often drawing attention only for "her sobriety, her detachment from power and her directness".{{cite journal |journal=Fucsia |title=Lina Moreno |url=http://www.revistafucsia.com/edicion-impresa/articulo/lina-moreno/6672 |language=es |issn=0124-857X |date=2010-08-13 |access-date=2012-04-11 |issue=118 |location=Bogotá}} Months prior to her husband taking office, Moreno said in an interview that she would prefer not like to use the style of First Lady, referring to it as "petulant and pink",{{cite journal |last=Bejarano González |first=Bernardo |date=2002-04-18 |title=No soy el eco de Álvaro Uribe |trans-title=I am not the echo of Álvaro Uribe |journal=El Tiempo |location=Bogotá |language=es |issn=0121-9987 |oclc=28894254 |access-date=2012-05-29 |url=http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-1375873}} pointing out that the title has been overused in that "there are many: that of the nation, of the department, of the municipality...", and stating that she would have liked to be addressed solely as "Lina María Moreno, wife of Álvaro Uribe", but establishing that that did not meant she was the sounding board of Uribe.

On 11 April 2002, following the election of her husband in the 2002 presidential election, Clara Lía Mora and Clara Elena Moreno Mora, Moreno's aunt and first-cousin respectively, were kidnapped from their home in the Caldas, Antioquia at gunpoint. They were later rescued in a joint effort between the National Police and the 4th Brigade of the National Army, but during the operation the assailants shot Mrs Mora on the chest seriously injuring her; both mother and daughter were treated and successfully recovered, but it put pressure on authorities to take higher security precautions in the following months before and after the inauguration.

In 2005, in an interview for El Tiempo, she told Yamid Amat that she was for the decriminalization of abortion, but still opposed to its legalization, a move that although not radical, contradicted the official position of the State and of the President.{{cite journal|last=Amat |first=Yamid |author-link=Yamid Amat |date=2005-10-16 |title=Primera Dama, a favor de despenalizar el aborto |trans-title=First Lady, in favour of decriminalizing abortion |journal=El Tiempo |location=Bogotá |language=es |issn=0121-9987 |oclc=28894254 |access-date=2012-05-29 |url=http://www.convencion.org.uy/menu4-769.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015064300/http://www.convencion.org.uy/menu4-769.htm |archive-date=2008-10-15 }}

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