Nohra Puyana de Pastrana

Nohra was born in Medellín, Antioquia{{cite journal |url=http://www.larepublica.co/entre-dise%C3%B1o-historia-y-econom%C3%ADa-el-perfil-de-las-primeras-damas_154276 |date=7 August 2014 |language=es |journal=La República |title=Entre diseño, historia y economía, el perfil de las primeras damas |access-date=13 April 2016 |location=Bogotá}} on 29 May 1955 to Eduardo Puyana Rodríguez and Alicia Bickenbach Plata.{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.abbrv.co.uk/Wy6 |chapter=1.3 Andrés Pastrana Arango, Familiares y Parentela |trans-chapter=1.3 Andrés Pastrana Arango, Relatives and Kin |location=Bogotá |language=es |trans-title=Colombian Genealogy |first=Julio Cesar |last=García Vásquez |title=Genealogía Colombiana |type=Family tree |publisher=Interconexion Colombia |access-date=1 June 2012}} Nohra, the eldest of four children has two brothers, Eduardo and David, and one sister Laura. At a young age the family moved to Bogotá, and she attended the New Granada School where she finished her primary education and then attended the Marymount School where she finished her secondary education, and afterwards travel to France where she studied journalism at the École Française des Attachés de Presse in Paris.{{cite journal |url=http://www.semana.com/especiales/juego-damas/54934-3.aspx |date=16 May 1994 |language=es |journal=Semana |title=Juego de Damas |trans-title=Ladies' Game |access-date=1 June 2012 |location=Bogotá |issn=0124-5473 |oclc=7475329 }} After college, Puyana worked for the French magazine Elle, for Christian Dior, and for the UNESCO Press Corps.

In 1978 back in Colombia, she met Andrés Pastrana Arango, a lawyer and then Director of Guión magazine, and the son of former President of Colombia Misael Pastrana Borrero and his wife and former First Lady María Cristina Arango Vega;{{cite journal |last=Aguirre Acosta |first=Diamilia Rocio |date=23 May 1998 |title=Nohra, La Devota de Andrés |trans-title=Nohra, The Devout of Andrés |journal=El Tiempo |location=Bogotá |language=es |issn=0121-9987 |oclc=28894254|url=http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-750087 }}{{cite journal |date=19 July 2010 |title=200 Años de Amores |trans-title=200 Years of Love |journal=Cromos |location=Bogotá |language=es |issn=0011-1708 |oclc=7682578|url=http://www.cromos.com.co/personajes/actualidad/articulo-200-anos-de-amores }} they were introduced at a corrida de toros in Cartagena de Indias by Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, a mutual friend of the Puyanas and the Pastranas. They met again later that year at a new year's party and they started dating shortly after. They were married in a Roman Catholic ceremony on 20 March 1981 at the Church of Saint Peter Claver in Cartagena.{{cite book |title=Testimonio De Una Trayectoria |trans-title=Testimony of a Trayectory |url=http://issuu.com/andrespastrana/docs/apa_testimonio_de_una_trayectoria |access-date=1 June 2012|year=1994 |publisher=Pastrana Arango, Andrés; Presidential Campaign of |location=Bogotá |language=es |pages=12–13}} Together they have three children: Santiago (born 18 December 1982), Laura (born 11 May 1985), and Valentina (born 25 April 1996).{{cite journal |url=http://www.semana.com/gente/nueva-fuerza-familiar/30999-3.aspx |date=3 June 1996 |language=es |journal=Semana |title=Nueva Fuerza Familiar |trans-title=New Family Force |access-date=1 June 2012|location=Bogotá |issn=0124-5473 |oclc=7475329 }}

Living through Colombian armed conflict, Puyana had to endure the tragedy that beset her family during the wave of kidnappings in Colombia during the late 1980s, the whole of the 1990s, and early 2000s. On 18 January 1988 her husband, who was running to become mayor of Bogotá, was kidnapped in Antioquia by the Medellín Cartel in an effort to put pressure on the Government and prevent the extradition of Pablo Escobar and other drug lords to the United States; he was finally released a week later. On 9 April 1991, her 62-year-old father, Eduardo Puyana Rodríguez, was kidnapped while driving his car in Bogotá.{{cite journal |journal=El Tiempo |location=Bogotá |url=http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-93095 |date=3 April 1993|access-date=1 June 2012 |title=Captores Mataron A E Puyana |trans-title=Captors Killed E Puyana |issn=0121-9987 |oclc=28894254 }} His body was found on 2 April 1993 buried on a farm in the outskirts of the town of Victoria, Caldas and it was determined he had been killed a year earlier by his captors. On 27 December 2002, her maternal uncle, businessman Helmut Bickenbach Plata (age 69), and his wife Doris Inés Gil Santamaría (age 63), a former Miss Colombia, were kidnapped from their home in Nocaima by the FARC and held captive for ransom.{{cite news |newspaper=El Nuevo Herald |date=23 June 2003 |language=es |location=Miami |oclc=4226997 |page=1B |title=Colombia Indignada Por La Muerte de Rehenes |trans-title=Colombia Indignant for the Death of Hostages}} They were later killed by the guerrillas on 23 June 2003 during a confrontation with the Colombian Army.{{cite web |publisher=Colombia, Press Office of the President (SNE) |access-date=1 June 2012|date=24 June 2003 |language=es |location=Bogotá | title=FARC Asesinaron Á Helmut Bickenbach Y La Señora Doris Gil de Bickenbach |trans-title=FARC Assassinates Helmut Bickenbach And Mrs Doris Gil de Bickenbach |url=http://www.presidencia.gov.co/prensa_new/sne/2003/junio/24/12242003.htm }}

• María Cristina Arango Vega

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