Nydia Quintero Turbay
{{Short description|First Lady of Colombia from 1978 to 1982}}
{{Spanish married name|Quintero|Turbay|Balcázar}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Nydia Quintero
|image = Nydia Quintero de Balcazar (cropped).jpg
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|caption =
|order =
|office = First Lady of Colombia
|term_start = {{Start date|1978|08|07|df=yes}}
|term_label =In role
|president = Julio César Turbay Ayala
|term_end = {{End date|1982|08|07|df=yes}}
|predecessor = Cecilia Caballero Blanco
|successor = Rosa Helena Álvarez Yepes
|birth_name = Nydia Quintero Turbay
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1932|08|28|df=yes}}
|birth_place = Neiva, Huila, Colombia
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|nationality = Colombian
|party = Liberal
|spouse = {{Plainlist|
- {{marriage|Julio César Turbay Ayala|1948|1983|reason=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Gustavo Balcázar|1984}}
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|children = {{Hlist|
|María Victoria
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Nydia Quintero Turbay de Balcázar (born 28 August 1932{{efn|Name prior to her marriage: Nydia Quintero Turbay, formerly Nydia Quintero de Turbay, later change to Nydia Quintero Turbay de Balcázar her current name.}}) 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.{{cite journal|last=Ríos Peñaloza|first=Gilma|title=Primeras Damas del Siglo XX|journal=Credencial Historia|date=1 August 1996|issue=80|url=http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/revistas/credencial/agosto1996/agosto2.htm|access-date=6 November 2012|trans-title=First Ladies of the 20th Century|publisher=Colombia, Bank of the Republic|location=Bogotá|language=es|issn=0121-3296|oclc=39236834}}
Born in Neiva, Huila, Quintero is the founder of the Solidarity for Colombia Foundation, which she founded in 1975.{{Cite web| url=http://www.solidaridadporcolombia.org |title=Fundación Solidaridad por Colombia |access-date=2011-04-17 |language=es }} She was married to her first cousin, Julio César Turbay Ayala. She is one of the most influential first ladies of Colombia.
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 {{Lang|es|La Presentación}} in Neiva where she lived until the death of her father when she moved to Bogotá to study at the {{Lang|es|Liceo Nacional Femenino Antonia Santos}}. 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. From their marriage they had four children: Julio César, Diana Consuelo, Claudia, and María Victoria.{{cite book |publisher=Interconexión Colombia |title=Genealogía Colombiana Volumen 4|trans-title=Colombian Genealogy, Vol 4 |last=Garvía Vásquez |first=Julio César |language=es |trans-chapter=1.8. Julio César Trubay Ayala, Relatives and In-Laws |chapter=1.8. Julio César Trubay Ayala, Familiares y Parentela |chapter-url= http://www.interconexioncolombia.com/documentos/genealogia/tomo4/1.%20GENEALOGIA%20COLOMBIANA/1-8%20JULIO%20CESAR%20TURBAY%20AYALA%20FAMILIARES%20Y%20PARENTELA%20%5BModo%20de%20compatibilidad%5D.pdf }} She divorced her husband in 1983{{cite journal |title=Ex esposos y amigos |trans-title=Ex-spouses and friends |journal=Revista Semana |language=es |access-date=2011-04-17 |url=http://www.semana.com/noticias-gente/ex-esposos-amigos/29923.aspx |date=1996-12-23 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120910005748/http://www.semana.com/noticias-gente/ex-esposos-amigos/29923.aspx |archive-date=2012-09-10 }} 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, her marriage to former President Turbay Ayala was annulled by the Catholic Church in 1986.
Honour
- {{flag|Spain}}: Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic[http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1979/07/02/pdfs/A15104-15104.pdf Boletín Oficial del Estado] (PDF) Accessed 19 December 2019.
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Category:People from Huila Department
Category:Colombian people of Lebanese descent
Category:Colombian people of Basque descent
Category:First ladies of Colombia
Category:Colombian philanthropists
Category:Recipients of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
Category:Dames Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic