Background
Dilian Francisca was born on 6 January 1959, in Guacarí, Colombia.
politician member of the Senate of Colombia
Dilian Francisca was born on 6 January 1959, in Guacarí, Colombia.
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.
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. She currently serves as Governor of Valle del Cauca Department. Toro was first elected to Congress as a Liberal Party candidate in the 2002 Legislative Elections receiving a total of 71,721 votes.
Because of her support for President Álvaro Uribe Vélez and his bid for re-election, Toro was sanctioned by the Liberal Party in 2004, which prompted to join a splinter group of Congresspersons from different parties who joined to form the 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.
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".