Upon returning to Colombia, she was elected councilwoman for the Municipality of Guacarí, and in 1992 she became Mayor of Guacarí post which she occupied until 1994.
In 1996, she married former Senator Julio César Caicedo Zamorano in a religious ceremony officiated in the San Juan Bautista de Guacarí church,[REF] that same year she was named Secretary of Health for the Department of Valle del Cauca.