Lucila Santos Trujillo

Lucila Santos Trujillo
First Lady of Ecuador
In role
November 16, 1966  August 31, 1968
President Otto Arosemena
Preceded by Victoria Mercedes Gómez Icaza
Succeeded by Corina del Parral
Personal details
Born 1925
Portoviejo, Ecuador
Died 1984 (aged 5859)
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Nationality Ecuadorian
Spouse(s)
Otto Arosemena
(m. 1947; d. 1984)
Children
  • Otto Luis
  • Fabiola Lucila
  • María Auxiliadora

Lucila Santos Trujillo (b. 1925, Portoviejo — 1984, Guayaquil) was First Lady of Ecuador to Otto Arosemena from 16 November 1966 to 31 August 1968.

Biography

Santos was born to Atanasio Santos Chávez, Governor of Manabí Province, and Lucila Trujillo Gutiérrez.[1]

In 1947, she married Otto Arosemena in Guayaquil,[2] and the couple had three children.[3] In 1955, they acquired a neocolonial property in Guayaquil and named it Villa Lucile. They sold the property in 1962 and moved to Quito,[2] where Arosemena had been living since 1957 for his political offices. When he became President of Ecuador in 1966, Santos likewise because First Lady and the host of Carondelet Palace during her husband's presidency.

In addition to the First Lady's traditional role as president of the National Institute for Children and the Family, Santos promoted the "One School a Day" program, which built schools across Ecuador.[4]

Citations

  1. "Lucila Santos Trujillo". geni.com. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 Aleaga Ramírez, Edison (7 March 2012). "La casa de Otto Arosemena es ahora una radio FM". Diario PP El Verdadero (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  3. Saxon, Wolfgang (22 April 1984). "Otto Arosemena, 58, is dead in Ecuador; President in 1960's". New York Times.
  4. "Historia de la institución" (in Spanish). Balzar, Ecuador: Lucila Santos School of Arosemena. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
Preceded by
Victoria Mercedes Gómez Icaza
First Lady of Ecuador

1972–1976
Succeeded by
Corina del Parral
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