Worldwide Guide to Women in
Leadership
Female Leaders of Colombia Parties
Also see Columbia Ministers
1966-83 Co-Leader Partido Conservatidor Senador Doña Berta Hernández de
Ospina Peréz
1983-93 Leader of the Party
1993- Co-Leader of Partido Social Conservador
Around 1974 Leader of Alianza Nacional Popular Maria Eugenia Rojas de Moreno
Diaz
She was Presidential Candidate 1974, and later she was Leader of the Majority in
the City Council of Bogotá and Majorial candidate 1988.
1977-ca 2004 Leader Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores (Workers) Maria Socorro
Ramirez
She was Presidential Candidate in 1977
Circa 1983-... Leader of Autodefensa Obrera (Worker's Self Defence) Adelaida Badina Rey
1985- Leader Movemento Unitario Metropolitico
Regina Betancourt de Liska
She was Presidential Candidate in 1986, 90 and 1994 and Senator 1991-95.
(b. 1936-).
1991-... Leader of Mujeres para la Democracia Angela Cuevas de Dolmetsch
1994-... President of Union Patriótica Aida Abella
1996-2002 Leader of
Partido Verde Oxígeno Ingrid Betancourt
Pulecio
Presidential Candidate
2002, but abducted by a leftwing guerilla and held hostage 2003-08. Her father
was a former Minister and her mother a former member of the congress. (b. 1961-)
2003 Leader of the Liberal Party
Piedad Córdoba
Senator.
2003-08 President of Movimiento
Independiente de Renovación Absoluta "MIRA" Alexandra Moreno Piraquive
2011-
Senate Leader
Senate Vice-President 2010-11. (b. 1969-)
2010- Leader of Polo Democrático
Alternativo Clara López Obregón
Auditor General of the Republic 2002-05,
Secretary of Interior in Bogotá 2008-10 and Vice-Presidential Candidate in 2010.
Last update 28.08.13