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{{Short description|Colombian politician (born 1932)}}
{{Infobox officeholder 
|name               = María Eugenia Rojas
|image              = 
|office             = [[Senator of Colombia]]
|term_start         = {{start date|1966|7|20|df=y}}
|term_end           = {{end date|1974|7|20|df=y}}
|office2            = Member of the [[Chamber of Representatives of Colombia|Chamber of Representatives]]
|constituency2      = [[Santander Department|Santander]]
|term_start2        = {{start date|1962|7|20|df=y}}
|term_end2          = {{end date|1964|7|20|df=y}}
|birth_name   = María Eugenia Rojas Correa
|birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1932|10|06|df=y}} 
|birth_place  = [[Vélez, Santander]], Colombia
|death_date   = 
|death_place  = 
|nationality  = [[Colombian people|Colombian]]
|party        = [[National Popular Alliance]] 
|alma_mater   = {{ubl|[[Trinity Washington University]]|[[Tulane University]]}}
|spouse       = Samuel Moreno Diaz
|children     = {{ubl|[[Samuel Moreno Rojas]]|Néstor Iván Moreno Rojas}}
|relations    = [[Gustavo Rojas Pinilla]] <small>(father)</small>
}}
'''María Eugenia Rojas Correa''' (born 6 October 1932) is a retired Colombian political figure. The daughter of the [[List of Presidents of Colombia|19th]] [[President of Colombia]], [[Gustavo Rojas Pinilla]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DA5lAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wYINAAAAIBAJ&pg=2966,70211&dq=mar%C3%ADa-eugenia-rojas&hl=en|title=Foe of U.S. Policy new Colombian President|publisher=Edmonton Journal|author=Associated Press|date=April 22, 1974|accessdate=2011-01-28}}</ref>

== Life ==
During her father's government she fought for women's rights by getting the recognition of all their rights and helped create female police.

She served as Member of the [[Chamber of Representatives of Colombia]] from 1962 to 1964, and as Member of the [[Senate of Colombia]] from 1966 to 1974.

In 1974 she became the first woman to run for president in all of Latin America, managing to get third place in representation of the [[National Popular Alliance]], the party that she and her father helped create.

She is married to Samuel Moreno Díaz and has two sons, [[Samuel Moreno Rojas]] and Néstor Iván Moreno Rojas, who have both been involved in politics and have been involved in corruption scandals.

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[[Category:Members of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia]]
[[Category:Members of the Senate of Colombia]]
[[Category:National Popular Alliance politicians]]
[[Category:Colombian feminists]]
[[Category:Rojas family]]


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