Dilian Francisca Toro

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Dilian Francisca Toro
Senator of Colombia
In office
20 July 2002 (2002-07-20) – 18 February 2013 (2013-02-18)
President of the Senate
In office
20 July 2006 (2006-07-20) – 20 July 2007 (2007-07-20)
Preceded byClaudia Blum
Succeeded byNancy Patricia Gutiérrez
Personal details
Born
Dilian Francisca Toro Torres

(1959-01-06) 6 January 1959 (age 65)
Rheumatologist
Websitewww.dilianfrancisca.org
In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Toro and the second or maternal family name is Torres.

Dilian Francisca Toro Torres (born 6 January 1959) is a Colombian physician and politician, she served as

Senator of Colombia from 2002 to 2013. She was investigated by the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia on charges of money laundering, and remained under preventive detention from 25 July 2012 to 1 August 2013 at the Police Centre for Higher Studies (Cespo) in Bogotá.[1] She currently serves as Governor of Valle del Cauca Department
.

Personal life

Dilian Francisca was born on 6 January 1959, in Guacarí, Colombia. When she was 15 years old, she co-founded Casa de la Cultura of Guacarí, a non-profit cultural organization working with at-risk groups. She studied Medicine at the Free University of Colombia, at Cali, where she graduated as Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery; she latter attended Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, where she specialized in Rheumatology.

Upon returning to Colombia, she was elected councilwoman for the Municipality of Guacarí, and in 1992 she became Mayor of Guacarí post which she occupied until 1994.

In 1996, she married former Senator Julio César Caicedo Zamorano in a religious ceremony officiated in the San Juan Bautista de Guacarí church,

Department of Valle del Cauca. Toro inherited the political support once held by the former liberal party leader in Valle del Cauca Carlos Abadía who was jailed as part of the 8000 process scandal, in which members of the Cali Cartel financed the political campaigns of numerous politicians including the presidential campaign of Ernesto Samper
who resulted elected.

Senator of Colombia

Toro was first elected to Congress as a

2002 Legislative Elections receiving a total of 71,721 votes.[3]

Because of her support for President

Social National Unity Party
and backed President Uribe.

In 2006 Toro was re-elected senator, and elected by her peers as President of the Senate of Colombia.

Presidential band incident

During the inauguration ceremony of President Uribe for his second term, as president of the Congress of Colombia, she became the first woman to ever administer the oath of office to the President of Colombia.[4] There was a controversy however, Toro made a mistake and placed the presidential band backwards, with the Colombian flag colors inverted. When Toro was interviewed about this, she explained that "it was to bring good fortune to the new government... ...because you are supposed to wear your panties inverted for good luck".[5]

References

  1. OCLC 7475329
    . Retrieved 19 June 2013.
  2. ^ García, Francia Elena (1996-11-16). "Sociales De Cali". El Tiempo. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  3. ISBN 978-0-00-124700-0
    . Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  4. OCLC 234235629
    . Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  5. ^ Samper Pizano, Daniel (2006-08-16). "The Panty-otism era". El Tiempo. Archived from the original on September 26, 2007. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
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