Lorena Ponce de León Núñez (born 6 October 1976) is a

Uruguayan Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

landscape architect. She is the wife of the 42nd

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Luis Lacalle Pou Luis Alberto Aparicio Alejandro Lacalle Pou (; ''Luis Lacalle'' locally or ; born 10 August 1973) is a Uruguayan politician and lawyer serving as President of Uruguay since 1 March 2020. Son of former president Luis Alberto Lacalle, Lacalle ...

Early life and education

She was born on 6 October 1976 in

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, as the daughter of a Batllist mother and a father with little connection to politics. She was raised in

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, where she lived until being 9 years old, and then she moved with her parents to Carrasco. She attended the

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and the Scuola Italiana. She graduated from Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the Universidad de la Empresa with a Forest Technician degree. She also studied Forest Technician at the Professor Julio Muñoz School of Gardening. She graduated from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the Universidad de la Empresa as a Forestry Technician and studied Forestry Technician at the School of Gardening Prof. Julio E. Muñoz.

Jobs in Uruguay

Sembrando Program

In March 2020, she launched ''Sembrando'', a program that aims to support entrepreneurs after the health crisis caused by the

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. The program makes it possible to consult with experts in the area and helps to connect entrepreneurs with institutions related to the topic of their entrepreneurship. She herself reported on April 7 that 1,460 people had signed up.

Personal life

Ponce de León is a hockey player. In November 1989, Ponce de León met with

at a youth gathering to celebrate the victory of Luis Lacalle Herrera (father of Lacalle Pou), as

President of Uruguay The president of Uruguay ( es, Presidente del Uruguay), officially known as the president of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (), is the head of state and head of government of Uruguay. Their rights are determined in the Constitution of Urugua ...

. Ten years later, they met again and began dating. They were married in 2000, in a service conducted by

Daniel Sturla Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, SDB (born 4 July 1959 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan Roman Catholic prelate and the archbishop of Montevideo. Biography Sturla was born in a Uruguayan middle-class family. His parents died when he was a teena ...

in the

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. Together, they have three children: Luis Alberto, Violeta and Manuel. Luis and Violeta are the first twins born by

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in Uruguay. On 6 May 2022, she announced the separation from her husband.

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