Consuelo Gonzales Posada Explained

Consuelo Gonzáles Posada
Office:First Lady of Peru
President:Juan Velasco Alvarado
Term Start:October 3, 1968
Term End:August 29, 1975
Term Label:In Role
Predecessor:Carolina Belaúnde Aubry
Birth Name:María Consuelo Gonzáles-Posada Arriola de Velasco
Birth Date:12 June 1920
Birth Place:Ica, Peru
Death Place:Seoul, South Korea
Occupation:First Lady of Peru
Nickname:Chola
Mother of the Peruvian Revolution[1]

María Consuelo Gonzáles-Posada Arriola de Velasco (June 18, 1920 – September 7, 2012) was a socialite and First Lady of Peru, as the wife of General Juan Velasco Alvarado, between October 3, 1968, and August 29, 1975, in the so-called Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Peru.

Biography

Gonzáles was the daughter of the lawyer and APRA militant Carlos Gonzáles Posada and María Herminia Arriola Vásquez. She was a sister on the paternal side of the Aprista politician Luis Gonzales Posada. Together with her sister, the future congresswoman Bertha Gonzáles Posada, they were known by the Peruvian social press as "the Gonzáles", she was nicknamed the "Chola" and her sister the "Coca".[1]

First Lady

As first lady of Peru, she acted as the president of the National Assistance Board (Spanish; Castilian: link=no|Junta de Asistencia Nacional, JAN), working to assist the victims of the 1970 earthquake and avalanche in Yungay.[2]

The revolutionary government created the National Commission for Peruvian Women, which was chaired by Gonzáles.

On the other hand, she visited the United States, where she met with Pat Nixon, and two years later, she undertook a tour of India, Algeria, Mexico and Cuba.

At the beginning of 1973, Alvarado suffered a health collapse due to an aneurysm and a ruptured abdominal aorta. Gonzáles Posada was in charge of transmitting messages to the population on behalf of her husband while he was recovering from the two surgeries. In August 1975, General Francisco Morales Bermúdez carried out a coup against the revolutionary government. After that, Velasco and his wife moved to Chaclacayo. She died in September 2012.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Velasco en la Plaza de Acho (1968–1971) y “Consuelo” (2018) . December 19, 2018 . Arkiv.
  2. News: Los tres terribles minutos que sepultaron Yungay [crónica] ]. May 31, 2020 . Andina.