Background
Nohra was born in Medellín, Antioquia on 29 May 1955 to Eduardo Puyana Rodríguez and Alicia Bickenbach Plata.
journalist First Lady of Colombia
Nohra was born in Medellín, Antioquia on 29 May 1955 to Eduardo Puyana Rodríguez and Alicia Bickenbach Plata.
At a young age the family moved to Bogotá, and she attended the New Granada School where she finished her primary education and then attended the Marymount School where she finished her secondary education, and afterwards travel to France where she studied journalism at the École Française des Attachés de Presse in Paris.
On 27 December 2002, her maternal uncle the businessman, Helmut Bickenbach Plata of 69, and his wife the former Mission Colombia, Doris Inés Gil Santamaría of 63, were kidnapped from their home in Nocaima by the FARC and held captive for ransom. They were killed at point-blank range by the guerrillas on 23 June 2003 during a confrontation with Colombian Army.