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Paloma Valencia, the Heiress of Álvaro Uribe Who Dreams of Following in Her Footsteps and Taking the Reins of Colombia

Summary by El Periódico
"The only home in which the Colombian woman does not rule is the Casa de Nariño and that will change." Paloma Valencia embodies this longing in the name of the traditional right. Born in 1978 in Popayán, southeast of Bogotá, she is the granddaughter of former President Guillermo León Valencia, who ruled in the early 1960s, when the extended cycle of political violence begins. But she, lawyer, philosopher and senator since 2014, feels more comfor…

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She is a lawyer and philosopher by profession with a master's degree in economics from the University of the Andes and another in creative writing from the University of...

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As one of those television serial characters to whom they adapt the script as they grow up in front of viewers and they must leave their childish role to assume youth, in the same way, Paloma Valencia , fifty years old, has grown electorally and matured as a leader before the Colombian political audience. Her trajectory is not very long, but she has been forceful in the three periods in which she has served as a senator, a career begun in 2014, …

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"The only home in which the Colombian woman does not rule is the Casa de Nariño and that will change." Paloma Valencia embodies this longing in the name of the traditional right. Born in 1978 in Popayán, southeast of Bogotá, she is the granddaughter of former President Guillermo León Valencia, who ruled in the early 1960s, when the extended cycle of political violence begins. But she, lawyer, philosopher and senator since 2014, feels more comfor…

·Barcelona, Spain
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On the morning of May, with the first round around the corner, Paloma Valencia borrows an office in Congress — hers is further away. When she enters, quickly dissolves the army of advisors and collaborators around her before giving an order: bring coffee. From the street, from the good one. The 50-year-old senator settles in the chair with her usual style—a shirt and colored tennis. They are purple and from Real Madrid—and starts to talk as if s…

·Spain
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Paloma Valencia has managed to unite a part of the political center with Uribismo and the polls claim that it would defeat Ivan Cepeda in case of moving to the second round of the...

·Madrid, Spain
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A few hours after the first presidential round in Colombia, Senator Paloma Valencia profiled herself as one of the most competitive figures in the electoral spectrum. 48-year-old lawyer has managed to articulate an unprecedented coalition. This adds to Uribismo with sectors of the political center. In this way she is consolidated in the polls as a possible winner against Ivan Cepeda in a possible second round. In an exclusive interview with EL M…

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El Mundo broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Friday, May 29, 2026.
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