Lorena Clare Facio

Lorena Clare Facio (born June 30, 1943) is the former First Lady of Costa Rica and wife of former President Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría.

[1] She was born in San José, Costa Rica on June 30, 1943, to her parents Manuel Emilio Clare and María Elena Facio.

She concluded her secondary school education in Colegio Nuestra Señora de Sión and left for France for a few years.

She married Miguel Ángel Rodríguez on December 14, 1962, although she had met him as a teenager at a party in Barrio Aranjuez.

During her time as First Lady she supported projects in benefit of older people and cancer patients, and was president of the Martín House of the Youth.