Verónica Alcocer García is the wife of Colombian economist, politician, former guerrilla fighter, senator of Italian descent, and the president-elect of Colombia Gustavo Petro.
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Veronica’s husband defeated Rodolfo Hernández Suárez in the second round of the presidential election on 19 June 2022 and the victory means that he is the first candidate to reference himself as a leftist to be elected president of Colombia.
Who Is Verónica Alcocer García?
Who is Gustavo Petro wife Verónica Alcocer García? As mentioned earlier, Verónica Alcocer García is best known as the wife of Columbia’s new president Gustavo Petro.
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Verónica Alcocer García was born on May 26, 1976 in Sincelejo, in the department of Sucre in the north of the country.
Veronica grew up in a well-off right-wing conservative family and studied law at the Corporacion Universitaria del Caribe (University Corporation of the Caribbean) in Sincelejo, but never graduated.
Veronica was 24 when she met Petro, who had travelled to Sincelejo to give a conference at her university, in 2000.
Veronica and Petro got married in 2000 not long after they met when Petro came to Sincelejo to give a conference at her university.
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