Lucila Santos Trujillo Explained

Lucila Santos Trujillo
Office:First Lady of Ecuador
Term Label:In role
Term Start:November 16, 1966
Term End:August 31, 1968
Predecessor:Victoria Mercedes Gómez Icaza
Successor:Corina del Parral
Birth Date:9 July 1928[1] (disputed)
Birth Place:Portoviejo, Ecuador
Death Place:Guayaquil, Ecuador
President:Otto Arosemena

Lucila Santos Trujillo (9 July 1928[2] 4 May 2020)[1] was First Lady of Ecuador to Otto Arosemena from 16 November 1966 to 31 August 1968.

Biography

Santos was born in Portoviejo, the daughter of Atanasio Santos Chávez, Governor of Manabí Province, and Lucila Trujillo Gutiérrez.[3]

In 1947, she married Otto Arosemena in Guayaquil,[4] and the couple had three children.[5] In 1955, they acquired a neocolonial property in Guayaquil and named it Villa Lucile. They sold the property in 1962 and moved to Quito,[4] where Arosemena had been living since 1957 for his political offices. When he became President of Ecuador in 1966, Santos likewise became 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.[6] She died in Guayaquil.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ecuador. PressReader.
  2. https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung&sca_esv=572984873&q=Lucila+Santos+Trujillo+9+de+julio+de+1928&tbm=bks&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiyuODbxvGBAxXvR_EDHZN3BbkQ0pQJegQICRAB&biw=412&bih=652&dpr=2.63
  3. Web site: Lucila Santos Trujillo. geni.com. 3 August 2018.
  4. News: Aleaga Ramírez. Edison. La casa de Otto Arosemena es ahora una radio FM. 7 March 2012. Diario PP El Verdadero. 19 October 2016. es. https://web.archive.org/web/20161020043256/http://www.ppdigital.com.ec/noticias/ciudadania/4/la-casa-de-otto-arosemena-es-ahora-una-radio-fm. 20 October 2016. dead.
  5. News: Saxon. Wolfgang. Otto Arosemena, 58, is dead in Ecuador; President in 1960's. New York Times. 22 April 1984.
  6. Web site: Historia de la institución. Lucila Santos School of Arosemena. Balzar, Ecuador. 19 October 2016. es.