Luisa Durán
{{Short description|Former First Lady of Chile}}
{{Expand Spanish|topic=bio|date=February 2010|Luisa Durán}}
{{family name hatnote|Durán|de la Fuente|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox First Lady
| name = Luisa Durán de la Fuente
| image = Luisa Duran cropped 2010.jpg
| order =
| office = First Lady of Chile
| term_label = In role
| term_start = {{start date|2000|03|11|df=y}}
| term_end = {{end date|2006|03|11|df=y}}
| president = Ricardo Lagos Escobar
| predecessor = Marta Larraechea Bolívar
| successor = Cecilia Morel
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|2|27|df=y}}
| birth_place = Santiago, Chile
| spouse = {{marriage|Ricardo Lagos Escobar|1971}}
| children = Hernán, Alejandro y Francisca
}}
Luisa Durán de la Fuente (born 27 February 1941) is the wife of the former President of Chile Ricardo Lagos. She was First Lady of Chile during her husband's tenure (2000-2006).
Personal life
Durán was born to Hernán Durán Morales and Luisa de la Fuente Tavolara. She studied at the Alliance Française school in Santiago and the Number 7 High School of Providencia.
Public life
During her time as First Lady, she preferred to be referred to as the President's wife.{{cite web|url=http://diario.elmercurio.com/detalle/index.asp?id={d30f01d1-a06b-420a-aa83-c7d9c7dfe13a}|title=Las confesiones de las ex Primeras damas|work=El Mercurio|date=24 June 2014|access-date=23 December 2014|quote=A Marta Larraechea y Luisa Durán nunca les gustó que las llamaran "Primera Dama". Firmaban como "Señora del Presidente", pero a poco andar se rindieron.|language=Spanish}} After the end of Lagos presidency, she was appointed executive director of the Youth and Children's Orchestras Foundation of Chile (2007-2010), and board member of Centro Cultural Matucana 100 and the Cultural Corporation of Santiago.
In 2013 she took over as director of the Corporación Cultural de Santiago.{{Cite web|title=La Segunda.com|url=http://www.lasegunda.com/Noticias/Impreso/2014/07/947362/pediran-que-luisa-duran-rinda-cuentas|last=S.A.P|first=El Mercurio|website=LaSegunda.com|language=Spanish|access-date=2020-05-14}}
In 2017 she returned to the public arena, regarding her spouse's presidential pre-candidacy, declaring in an interview that she had apprehensions regarding Lagos' decision, in order "not to have to be on the spot again, and to have this permanent bullying".{{Cite web|title=El Mercurio {{!}} SABADO{{!}} Página 5 {{!}} sábado, 28 de enero de 2017|url=http://impresa.elmercurio.com/Pages/NewsDetail.aspx?dt=28-01-2017%200:00:00&SupplementId=1&BodyID=0&PaginaId=5|last=LUN|website=impresa.elmercurio.com|access-date=2020-05-14|archive-date=2018-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014091343/http://impresa.elmercurio.com/Pages/NewsDetail.aspx?dt=28-01-2017%200:00:00&SupplementId=1&BodyID=0&PaginaId=5|url-status=dead}}
In October 2018 she resigned from the Party for Democracy.{{Cite web|title=Luisa Durán renuncia a su militancia PPD|url=https://www.latercera.com/reportajes/noticia/luisa-duran-renuncia-militancia-ppd/359678/|last=Reportajes|first=Equipo de|date=2018-10-13|website=La Tercera|access-date=2020-05-14}}
References
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External links
- {{webarchive |url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20020915112746/http%3A//www.luisaduran.cl/ |title=Official government site |date=2002-09-15}}
- {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309103604/http://www.fotopresidencia.cl/view/portada.asp?IdPersonajePrincipal=2 |title=Photographic gallery of activities |date=2005-03-09}}
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{{s-bef|before=Marta Larraechea}}
{{s-ttl|title=First Lady of Chile|years=2000—2006}}
{{s-aft|after=Cecilia Morel}}
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Category:Chilean people of Italian descent
Category:First ladies of Chile
Category:People from Santiago, Chile
Category:Dames Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
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