Mary Flake de Flores

Mary Carol Flake de Flores, First Lady of the republic of Honduras during the period 1998-2001, wife of Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé.

Personal data

Mary Carol Flake was born on September 25, 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee in the United States of America. She graduated in Textile and Marketing in the State University of Louisiana (Louisiana State University), Baton Rouge, in the same university as her future husband, by that then the gentleman Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé, who she married in 1973 and they had the following children: Mary Elizabeth Flores and Carlos David Flores Flake.

Political fight beside her husband

By the 1980s, the Carlos Flores had a position akin to minister in the government of José Azcona of the Hoyo, later in 1988, the Liberal Party of Honduras opened the opportunities so that they inscribed the movements pre-candidatures to presidential, the Engineer Carlos Flores, aimed, his husband obtained the support of the liberal electorate, but in the general elections won the candidate of the National Party of Honduras Graduate Rafael Leonardo Alleys, again present his new campaign for presidential candidate where the victorious was the Doctor Carlos Roberto Reina with margin of majority, Carlos Flores was appointed like President of the National Congress of Honduras, without going down the arms Flores and his wife presented by third time and stronger to the internal of his party in 1996, there would go out victorious. In the general election he won over the Graduate Nora Gúnera of Melgar candidate of the National Party of Honduras with a wide majority and acceptance. Mary Flake turned into the new First Lady of Honduras.

First Lady

Mary Flake, participated in the summit at first ladies of Central America and the BID, to give support to the Rural Woman in this project the (PRAF) generated micro companies for the single mothers, unanchored women of the husband or widowed; her maximum worry was to the children's education, the merienda school, the bono student and especially to the health, since it requested that all the lower boys went, incentive the support to the hospitals, houses of received and orphanages, foundations, NGO's and offices of charity. Founder of the Project PROFUTURO in 1998, whose purpose is the one to build an interactive center of education in Honduras and a children's Museum.

In the months of October and November 1998 the nation had to deal with Hurricane Mitch. This devastated the main city, the coast north of Honduras and caused thousands of damages, hundreds to be dispossess, and millions in damages of infrastructures. The country remained paralyzed, suffered, is there where the personality of the president Carlos Flores and his wife Mary Flake of Flores, begin an interminable fight by the "National Reconstruction" baptised as well as a stage more, in the History of Honduras.

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