María Fernanda Aristizábal
Birth Name: María Fernanda Aristizábal Urrea
Place of Birth: Armenia, Quindio, Colombia
Date of Birth: 19 June, 1997
Ethnicity: Colombian [Spanish, Basque, Italian, possibly other]
María Fernanda Aristizábal is a Colombian model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was crowned Señorita Colombia 2019 and represented the country in Miss Universe 2022.
She is the daughter of Bertha Lucía Urrea Posso and Bernardo Alonso Aristizábal Franco, a merchant.
María Fernanda’s paternal grandfather was Alonso Aristizábal Parra (the son of Justiano Aristizábal Martínez and Ana Etelvina Parra). Alonso was born in Guatapé, Antioquía, Colombia, and was a business owner.
María Fernanda’s paternal grandmother was named Flor María Franco Urrea.
She has no Italian ancestry.
*Colombian (Basque, possibly other).
Her wikipedia says “she is of Basque descent, from Spain and France”, it seems consistent with her family surnames and social class.
“Posso” is an Italian surname : https://www.genealogiasdecolombia.co/apellidos/Detalle.aspx?Posso.departamento=santander
I had read that but it does not exist in Italy: https://forebears.io/surnames/posso
She doesn’t even have French either. This re-writing of history is very annoying. The basque, though, is common among all the people of her region, it isn’t about her social class. Same as 99% of people in her region have a maternal Native American haplogroup, no matter their social class and how “white” they are.
Most of “French” in Latin America are culturally Basques that happened to being born on the other side of the border (Biarritz/Bayonne area). You may know better than me than the area is very classist, thus the higher you go, lower is the non-European ancestry.