Nohra Puyana Bickenbach

Nohra Puyana de Pastrana (née Puyana Bickenbach; 29 May 1955) is the wife of the 30th president of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1998 to 2002.

Personal life Nohra was born in Medellín, Antioquia on 29 May 1955 to Eduardo Puyana Rodríguez and Alicia Bickenbach Plata. Nohra, the eldest of four children has two brothers, Eduardo and David, and one sister Laura. After college, Puyana worked for the French magazine Elle, for Christian Dior, and for the UNESCO Press Corps. 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. Together they have three children: Santiago (born 18 December 1982),

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. 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. They were later killed by the guerrillas on 23 June 2003 during a confrontation with the Colombian Army.