Silvana López Moreira

Silvana López Moreira Bó (born 31 January 1974) is the current First Lady of Paraguay since 15 August 2018, due to her marriage to President Mario Abdo Benítez. With López Moreira, the office of First Lady was reopened in Paraguay after a vacant period, since the previous President, Horacio Cartes, ordered its closure due to being divorced.[1]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is López Moreira and the second or maternal family name is Bó.
Silvana López Moreira
López Moreira in August 2018
First Lady of Paraguay
Assumed office
15 August 2018
PresidentMario Abdo Benítez
Preceded byEmilia Alfaro
Personal details
Born
Silvana López Moreira Bó

(1974-01-31) 31 January 1974
Asunción, Paraguay
NationalityParaguayan
Spouse(s)
José Félix Ugarte
​
(divorced)​

Mario Abdo Benítez
Children4
ParentsNéstor López Moreira
Rossana Bó
ResidenceMburuvicha Róga

Personal life

Silvana López Moreira comes from a wealthy family, daughter of Néstor López Moreira and Rossana Bó.[2] López Moreira's maternal grandfather is businessman Nicolás Bó, who amassed his fortune during the regime of the late Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, and owned media companies and various other businesses.[2][3][4] López Moreira's first cousin, model Gabriela Bó, had a brief marriage with Mexican singer Cristian Castro.[2]

López Moreira's first marriage was to wealthy cattle rancher José Félix Ugarte (circa 1990s), with whom she had three children, two sons and a daughter.[2][3][4] She later married politician and later President of Paraguay Mario Abdo Benítez, who was her teenage sweetheart when both attended the San Andrés High School in Asunción, with whom she has a son.[2][3][4]

Education

López Moreira studied at the San Andrés High School in Asunción,[2][3][4] and her university studies were carried out at the Polytechnic and Artistic University of Paraguay, where she obtained a degree in Public Relations. She also obtained a degree in Marketing,[2][3] at the Universidad Americana.[4]

First Lady of Paraguay
López Moreira alongside her husband Mario Abdo Benítez during his inauguration

López Moreira was noted for her fashion sense during her husband's inauguration, wearing a dress made out of ñandutí (a typical handmade fabric of Paraguay),[2] embroidered by weavers from Itauguá, a city known for its production of said fabric.[5] Spanish magazine ¡Hola! reported that on Paraguayan newspapers, ABC Color compared her to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Michelle Obama, and Última Hora summarized her appearance as "impeccable", while ¡Hola! itself compared López Moreira's appearance with Juliana Awada, wife of Argentine President Mauricio Macri.[3] Other media also compared her with Queen Letizia of Spain.[6]

In February 2019, it was informed that López Moreira had contracted dengue fever during the 2019–2020 dengue fever epidemic, after her husband, President Adbo Benítez, had been infected the previous month.[7]

In July 2020, it was announced that López Moreira would debut as a television presenter in a television program aimed to support entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 pandemic in Paraguay, named Aikuaa ("To know" in Guarani language), to be broadcast on the state-run public broadcasting channel Paraguay TV, as well as on social media.[8]

References
  1. "Despacho de la Primera Dama será reabierto" [First Lady office to be reopened]. La Nación (in Spanish). 15 August 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  2. Velázquez, Marcos (17 August 2018). "Quién es la nueva Primera Dama de Paraguay que se robó las miradas durante el traspaso presidencial" [Who is the new First Lady of Paraguay who stole the spotlight during the presidential inauguration]. Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  3. "Silvana López, la Primera Dama de la que todos hablan" [Silvana López, the First Lady everyone talks about]. ¡Hola! (in Spanish). 16 August 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  4. de Carlos, Carmen (19 August 2018). "Silvana López, la primera dama de Paraguay" [Silvana López, the first lady of Paraguay]. ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  5. "Vestido de ñandutí de la Primera Dama fue bordado por 14 tejedoras itaugüeñas" [The First Lady's ñandutí dress was embroidered by 14 weavers from Itauguá]. Extra (in Spanish). 16 August 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  6. "Comparan a Silvana con la reina consorte de España" [Silvana compared with the queen consort of Spain]. Extra (in Spanish). 18 August 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  7. "Primera dama de Paraguay es diagnosticada con dengue" [First lady of Paraguay is diagnosed with dengue]. DW in Spanish (in Spanish). 9 February 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  8. "Primera dama paraguaya presentará un programa televisivo para emprendedores" [Paraguayan first lady to present a television program for entrepreneurs]. Infobae (in Spanish). 28 July 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
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