Matilde Ibáñez Tálice

Matilde Ibáñez Tálice (3 March 1907 – 4 September 2002) was the First Lady of Uruguay from 1947 to 1951, as the wife of President Luis Batlle Berres.

Matilde Ibáñez Tálice was born in Buenos Aires to the Argentine León Ibáñez Saavedra, who was a descendant of Cornelio Saavedra, and the Uruguayan Elvira Tálice Parodi.

[2] In 1927 she married the young politician Luis Batlle Berres, they had three children: Jorge (future President of Uruguay), Luis and Matilde.

[1] During the dictatorship of Gabriel Terra, the Batlle-Ibáñez family had to go to exile in Argentina.

[1] Half a century later, her son Jorge was elected President of Uruguay (2000–2005).