First Ladies of Venezuela - Blanca Rodriguez, List of First Ladies of Venezuela, Jacinta Parejo, Marisabel Rodriguez de Chavez (Paperback)

Chapters: Blanca Rodriguez, List of First Ladies of Venezuela, Jacinta Parejo, Marisabel Rodriguez de Chavez. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Blanca Maria Rodriguez (born January 1, 1926), First Lady of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993. Blanca Maria Rodriguez was born in Rubio, Tachira State, the youngest of eight children born to Manuel and Adela Rodriguez. Her grandfather, Eliodoro Rodriguez, was a prominent landowner in Rubio. Her father was also a coffee planter and a veteran of Colombia's Thousand Days War, in which he volunteered to fight on the side of the Liberal forces and acted as lieutenant to General Uribe. As a child, she was aware of her older cousin Carlos Andres Perez engaging in long political discussions with her father on topics as varied as the legacy of Simon Bolivar, the French Revolution and the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gomez in Venezuela. At the age of four, her mother died of cancer and Blanca's rearing was left in the hands of her older sister, Ana Isabel. Four years later, her father would also pass away. The family was financially ruined by the worldwide economic depression of the 1930s and all of the family haciendas had to be sold. She was educated by nuns at the Our Lady of the Rosary Convent School, where she graduated in 1944. Carlos Andres Perez began courting his cousin Blanca in 1944. He was then working and living in Caracas and would travel to Rubio as he could to visit her. They were wed on 8 June 1948. For the first months, they lived in the provincial city of San Cristobal but moved to the Venezuelan capital to share a rented house with Julia Perez, Blanca's mother-in-law. A few months later, in November 1948, the military launched a coup against the democratically elected go...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1278658