Alicia Pizzimbono | |
Office: | First Lady of Ecuador |
Term Label: | In role |
Term Start: | January 12, 1976 |
Term End: | August 9, 1979 |
Predecessor: | Aída Judith León |
Successor: | Martha Bucaram |
Birth Place: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Nationality: | Argentinian |
President: | Alfredo Poveda |
Alicia Pizzimbono de Nicola (born 1930, Buenos Aires) was the First Lady of Ecuador.
Alicia Pizzimbono de Nicola was born in 1930 in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. She met Alfredo Poveda in 1949 while he was a scholar at the and wed him on 21 December 1950. Two days later, Poveda graduated as a lieutenant and took Pizzimbono with him back to Ecuador, where their two daughters were born.[1]
On 11 January 1976, the Ecuadorian Armed Forces forced the resignation of military dictator Guillermo Rodríguez. Poveda, along with Army and Air Force heads and formed the Supreme Council of Government, which would govern the country until 1979.
On 8 October 1976, Pizzimbono traveled to Kiel, Germany for the ceremonial launch of Ecuador's first submarine the BAE Shyri, named after the First Lady's godmother.[2]