Teresa López Bustamante

Her father was journalist and editor Eduardo López Rivas, owner of the Venezuelan newspaper Diario El Fonógrafo (The Phonograph Daily) and the publishing house Imprenta Americana (American Press).

Her mother was the niece of Venezuelan pioneer physician Francisco Eugenio Bustamante and a descendant of General Rafael Urdaneta.

[2] Due to its support of the Allies during World War I, in 1917 Venezuelan president Juan Vicente Gómez permanently closed down the newspaper El Fonógrafo and consequently the editorial house.

[3][4] She started to work as a school teacher in Maracaibo and founded several charity organizations in the Venezuelan Zulia state.

In 1924 she founded the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maracaibo, El bien del pueblo (The good of the people).