Álvaro Rincón

Álvaro Rincón Muñoz (born July 12, 1953) is a Colombian architect who served as second gentleman of Colombia from 2018 to 2022. Married to the 12th Vice President of Colombia, Marta Lucía Ramírez, who was the first woman in office, Rincón was the first second gentleman of the country. Graduate in architecture from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Rincón is the first spouse of a vice president to be called to testify before the Colombian attorney general's office.^[1]

Álvaro Rincón Muñoz was born on July 12, 1953, in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. In 1973 he entered the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana where he would study architecture and where 6 years later he would meet Marta Lucía Ramírez. They married in 1970 and have only one daughter, María Alejandra Rincón.^[2]

In 2018, his wife would receive the nomination as a presidential pre-candidate of the Democratic Center. She had already tried in the 2014 presidential elections as a candidate for the Colombian Conservative Party. After the first round on May 27, 2018, his wife would become the vice presidential candidate. Obtaining victory in the second round of the 2018 presidential election on June 17, 2018.^[3][4]

In August 2018, Rincón and Marta Lucía would move into the Vice Presidential House, becoming the first host in the history of the residence as the husband of the first female vice president. In May 2020, he was called to testify before the Attorney General Francisco Barbosa, when he was named in the statements of narco-paramilitary Guillermo León Acevedo, who was investigated for having ties to 2018 Iván Duque presidential campaign. Rincón was finally acquitted and it was summarized that he no longer had a working relationship with him 10 years ago.^[5][6][7][8]