Lila T. Abaunza

Lila Teresita Abaunza Abaunza de Bolaños (29 January 1929 – 17 July 2008) was the First Lady of Nicaragua from 2002 until 2007 and the wife of the former President of Nicaragua, Enrique Bolaños. She was noted for her charitable work. Biography Lila Teresita Abaunza Abaunza was born in Masaya, Nicaragua, member of a prestigious family. Her father was Alejandro Abaunza Espinoza, President of the Congress of Nicaragua and Public Work Minister and Agriculture in the Partido Liberal, son of Carlos Abaunza Cuadra and wife Dolores Espinoza. Her mother was his wife and first cousin Esmeralda Abaunza Solórzano, daughter of Fernando Abaunza Cuadra and wife Marina Solórzano Vasconcelos, daughter of Enrique Solórzano Cardoze and wife Luz Vasconcelos, both of Portuguese descent, and he the son of Ramón Solórzano Montealegre and second wife Mónica Cardoze, who by his first wife Juana Reyes Robira had Federico Solórzano Reyes, married to Rosa Gutiérrez, the parents of Carlos José Solórzano, 58th President of Nicaragua. She was a relative by both parents of Justo Abaunza, 25th and 27th President of Nicaragua, of Fernando Guzmán, 37th President of Nicaragua and by both parents of José Vicente Cuadra, 38th President of Nicaragua. Abaunza studied at the La Asunción College in Managua and the Sacred Heart Preparatory Menlo Park, in California, United States.