Silvana López Moreira Bó (born 31 January 1974) is a former

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, from 15 August 2018 to 15 August 2023, due to her marriage to

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Mario Abdo Benítez Mario Abdo Benítez (; born 10 November 1971) is a Paraguayan politician who served as the 51st president of Paraguay from 2018 to 2023. He was previously a Senate of Paraguay, senator and served as List of presidents of the Senate of Paraguay, ...

. With López Moreira, the office of First Lady was reopened in Paraguay after a vacant period, since the previous President,

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, ordered its closure due to being divorced.

Personal life

Silvana López Moreira comes from a wealthy family, daughter of Néstor López Moreira and Rossana Bó. López Moreira's maternal grandfather is businessman Nicolás Bó, who amassed his fortune during the regime of the late Paraguayan dictator

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, and owned media companies and various other businesses. López Moreira's first cousin, model Gabriela Bó, had a brief marriage with Mexican singer

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. 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. In 2007, she married politician and later President of Paraguay

. He was her teenage sweetheart when both attended the San Andrés High School in Asunción. They have a son. López Moreira had a sister who, alongside her husband and their three children, died in the 2021

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Education

López Moreira studied at the San Andrés High School in Asunción, 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, at the

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First Lady of Paraguay

López Moreira was noted for her fashion sense during her husband's inauguration, wearing a dress made out of

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(a typical handmade fabric of Paraguay), embroidered by weavers from

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, a city known for its production of the fabric. Spanish magazine ''

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'' reported that on Paraguayan newspapers, ''

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'' compared her to

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and

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, and '' Última Hora'' considered her appearance "impeccable", while ''¡Hola!'' itself compared López Moreira's appearance to

Juliana Awada María Juliana Awada (born 3 April 1974) is an Argentine businesswoman who served as the first lady of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. She is the first woman in this role to have received the distinction of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Is ...

, wife of Argentine President

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. Other media also compared her to

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, with Spanish newspaper '' El Mundo'' referring to her, on occasion of a November 2022 visit to Spain alongside her husband, as "the Paraguayan Letizia". In February 2019, it was informed that López Moreira had contracted

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during the

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, after her husband, President Adbo Benítez, had been infected the previous month. 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

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, named ''Aikuaa'' ("To know" in

Guarani language Guarani (Avañe'ẽ), also called Paraguayan Guarani, is a language of South America that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani branch of the Tupian languages, Tupian language family. It is one of the two official languages of Paraguay (along with Spa ...

), to be broadcast on the state-run public broadcasting channel Paraguay TV, as well as on social media.

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