María Colombo de Acevedo

María Teresita del Valle Colombo de Acevedo was an Argentine politician who was a Senator for the province Catamarca and a member of the Radical Civic Union, which itself formed part of the Civic and Social Front of Catamarca.

Biography

Colombo was born in San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca. She studied at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, graduating in medicine, and studied politics as a postgraduate.
Colombo served as a provincial senator in Catamarca Province 1991–95. and was Senate president in 1994. She was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for 1997–2001 and became a senator in 2001. She was re-elected in 2003 for a six-year term, which expired on 10 December 2009.
Colombo died on 3 May 2021, at the age of 64, as a result of a thrombosis caused by her contagion from COVID-19.