Lorena Castillo
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{{Spanish married name|Castillo|García|Varela}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Lorena Castillo de Varela
|image = Lorena Castillo.jpg
|office = First Lady of Panama
| term_label = In role
| term_start = July 1, 2014
|term_end = July 1, 2019
|predecessor = Marta Linares de Martinelli
|successor = Yazmín Colón de Cortizo
|president = Juan Carlos Varela
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|7|31}}
|birth_place = Panama City, Panama
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|party = Panameñista Party
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|spouse = {{marriage|Juan Carlos Varela|1992}}
|profession = Journalist
politician
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Lorena Castillo García de Varela (born July 31, 1968) is a Panamanian journalist and politician. She has served as the First Lady of Panama since July 1, 2014, to July 1, 2019, during the tenure of her husband, President Juan Carlos Varela.
Early life
Castillo was born on July 31, 1968, in Panama City to parents, Manuel J. Castillo and Moty Garcia.{{cite news|title=First Lady of Panama Lorena Castillo de Varela |url=http://embassyofpanama.ph/about-panama/president-first-lady.html |work=Embassy of Panama in Manila, Philippines |access-date=2016-06-14}} She married Juan Carlos Varela in 1992.
Castillo attended the Flint Hill School in Oakton, Virginia in the United States. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the Latin American University of Science and Technology (ULACIT). She worked as a journalist at several organizations, including Telemetro. In 2012, she left journalism to focus on her husband's political career.{{cn|date=January 2025}}
First lady
Lorena Castillo became First Lady of Panama on 1 July 2014. On November 16, 2015, Castillo was appointed a "Special Advocate for AIDS in Latin America" by UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibé during a ceremony at the Palacio de las Garzas.{{cite news|title=First Lady of Panama named UNAIDS Special Advocate for AIDS in Latin America |url=http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2015/november/20151119_panama |work=UNAIDS |date=November 19, 2015 |access-date=2016-06-14}}
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Category:First ladies and gentlemen of Panama
Category:Panamanian journalists
Category:Panamanian women journalists
Category:Panameñista Party politicians
Category:People from Panama City
Category:20th-century Panamanian women writers
Category:20th-century Panamanian writers