{"id":521722,"date":"2026-08-15T22:16:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/first-lady-of-ecuador-loses-the-third-child-she-was-expecting-with-president-noboa\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T22:16:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T02:16:04","slug":"first-lady-of-ecuador-loses-the-third-child-she-was-expecting-with-president-noboa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/first-lady-of-ecuador-loses-the-third-child-she-was-expecting-with-president-noboa\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lady of Ecuador loses the third child she was expecting with President Noboa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quito.-<\/strong> The first lady of <strong>Ecuador, Lavinia Valbonesi,<\/strong> lost the third child she was expecting with the country&#8217;s president, Daniel Noboa, after suffering a complication during her pregnancy that forced her to undergo an emergency procedure, as reported this Saturday by the Minister of Government, Nataly Morillo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;With deep regret, I inform the country that the presidential family is going through the painful loss of their third child, Stefano Noboa Valbonesi&#8221;, <\/strong>stated Morillo on his X account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The official explained that Valbonesi underwent an emergency procedure due to a complication during her pregnancy and that, &#8220;unfortunately, Stefano passed away&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The minister expressed her condolences to the first lady and to Noboa, and conveyed to the presidential family her <strong>&#8220;respect, solidarity and affection in this moment of deep pain&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For her part, the Minister of Education, Gilda Alcivar, also lamented the loss on the social network X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;An angel in heaven for both. My deepest embrace to President Daniel Noboa and First Lady Lavinia Valbonesi at this time&#8221;<\/strong>, he\/she wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, the president of the National Assembly, Mishel Mancheno, extended her &#8220;solidary embrace&#8221; to Valbonesi and Noboa in the face of an &#8220;irreparable loss&#8221;; and the Minister of Labor, Cynthia Gellibert, noted that &#8220;Ecuador accompanies you with respect and strength&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a sign of mourning, the flag at the Carondelet Palace, seat of the Ecuadorian Presidency in Quito, will remain at half-mast for three days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noboa and Valbonesi have two children, \u00c1lvaro and Furio, born in 2022 and 2024 respectively.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quito.- The first lady of Ecuador, Lavinia Valbonesi, lost the third child she was expecting with the country&#8217;s president, Daniel Noboa, after suffering a complication during her pregnancy that forced her to undergo an emergency procedure, as reported this Saturday by the Minister of Government, Nataly Morillo. &#8220;With deep regret, I inform the country that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":521723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[25733,14862],"class_list":["post-521722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-daniel-noboa","tag-ecuador"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bIS","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/7457b4cb3abf504397a1cc2837f46b43.webp","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/7457b4cb3abf504397a1cc2837f46b43.webp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}