Vicky Dávila presidential candidate for the 2026 elections: this is known about her life
Meet Vicky Dávila, presidential candidate for the 2026 elections, and find out what details are known about her personal life. Here we tell you.
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Vicky Dávila has been trending in the last few hours, since she has applied as a presidential candidate for the elections that will be held in Colombia in 2026 , so many people are interested in knowing who the candidate is and details about her personal life. Here are some facts about her and her career.
Her full name is Vicky Eugenia Dávila Hoyos, she was born on May 30, 1973, in Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. She is a Colombian political activist, writer, radio and television presenter of conservative tendency, and has been the director of Semana Magazine since November 2020.
She graduated in Social Communication from the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente in Cali, and began her working life presenting the institutional news program “El Senado Hoy”, then went on to work as a reporter on the news program “Notipacífico”, on the regional channel Telepacífico.
Facts about Vicky Dávila’s life
Vicky’s husband, presidential candidate for the 2026 elections in Colombia
Vicky Dávila is the wife of José Amiro Gnecco Martínez, her second husband. He is a doctor and contractor. There is little information about her husband on the internet, so it is believed that he leads a discreet life and stays away from social networks. Their marriage took place in 2008.
The presidential candidate’s social media accounts do not feature any photos of her current husband, however, local media outlets have revealed some photos of her new husband, who is an ophthalmologist. They met in Cartagena, Colombia two years after her first husband died.
The first husband of presidential candidate Vicky Dávila died
Vicky’s first love was the brother of the also well-known journalist Yolanda Ruíz, the presenter of the RCN news program Juan Carlos Ruíz, who died at the age of 29 after being ill for several months and undergoing surgery. From this love, they had a son.
She will leave her role as director of Semana Magazine
It is said that the candidate for the presidency of Colombia will leave her current job as director of Semana magazine in the next few months, due to her candidacy. The rumors were confirmed by a local journalist, who left people waiting to find out the truth about this news about Vicky.
However, it should be noted that Dávila has been a key player in Colombian journalism, marked by his direct style and his ability to influence the public agenda. It is said that his departure from the magazine will take place in the coming months, at which time he will begin to formally structure his campaign.
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He has had controversies with fellow journalists
Dávila has been involved in several confrontations with other journalists. One of the best known was the one he had in February 2020 with the communications advisor to the presidency of the government of Iván Duque, Hassan Nassar, whom Dávila complained about for using the presidential plane to transport the relatives and friends of the president’s children to a birthday party of one of them.
Nassar responded by recalling that she had agreed to travel on the presidential plane with her husband José Amiro Gnecco to Europe during the government of Juan Manuel Santos. Dávila became upset and insulted the journalist repeatedly for several minutes during the live broadcast.
