Verónica Alcocer

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Verónica del Socorro Alcocer García (born 26 May 1976) is Colombian social issues advocate who was served as First Lady of Colombia from 2022 to 2026. She was married to Gustavo Petro, the 36th president of Colombia, from 2000 to 2026. Previously, she served as First Lady of Bogotá from 2012 to 2015. She is the third wife of a Mayor of Bogotá to become First Lady since Nohra Puyana de Pastrana in 1998. Verónica Alcocer was born in Sincelejo. She met Gustavo Petro in 2000 at the age of 20, and the two married in December of that year. That same year, they moved to Bogotá, D.C., where Petro already had an established political career. The couple had two children between 2002 and 2005. She had previously become a mother in 1996 to her eldest son, Nicolás. She has actively supported her husband in his political career, campaigning alongside him during his 2011 mayoral campaign in Bogotá. Alcocer became the First Lady of Bogotá after her husband's victory in the 2011 regional elections. As First...

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