Lolita Aniyar de Castro

Lolita Aniyar de Castro (8 May 1937 – 7 December 2015) was a Venezuelan teacher, lawyer, politician, and criminologist.

[2] She taught in graduate school at the Universidad de los Andes, as well as other universities in Argentina, Costa Rica, and Brazil, as well as other countries.

She was appointed as governor of the State of Zulia on 2 February 1994,[3] following the resignation of her predecessor, Oswaldo Álvarez Paz.

Before that, she had already become the first woman to be elected deputy to the Legislative Assembly of the State of Zulia and the first female senator to the National Congress of Venezuela.

She died on 7 December 2015 at the age of 78, as a result of a heart attack at her home in Maracaibo.