Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio

Early life and education Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio Mapy was born in Bogotá to a Colombian mother of indigenous descent and an Ecuadorian father; her mother had fled political unrest in Tolima in the 1950s. She has held a specialty in International Cooperation for Development from the Complutense University of Madrid, as well as a master's degree in Migration and Intercommunity Relations, since 2023.

Career In 1999, Villavicencio joined the Madrilenian wing of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and was elected to the Assembly of Madrid for the VIII Legislature (2007–2011), the first non-Spanish woman to hold the position in Madrid

In addition, she has been investigated for allegedly providing benefits to AESCO while working at the Ministry, in violation of the norms regulating conflicts of interest, and for purported mismanagement at Colombian consulates in Spain; she was nominated despite pending court decisions.

Personal life Villavicencio lived in Madrid, where she had moved with her husband and daughter (born 1984), for over twenty-five years. She became a naturalized Spanish citizen in 1994, but renounced her dual citizenship upon assuming the office of Foreign Minister, in accordance with Colombian law.

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