Peggy is daughter of the
Argentine journalist of
Spanish descent Alba María Cornero, a native of
Rosario, and Dominican writer and diplomat
Manuel del Cabral of colonial Spanish and colonial French descent; she was born in
Buenos Aires while her father was serving in the Embassy of the Dominican Republic to Argentina. Cabral comes from a prominent political family in the Dominican Republic, which has had several presidents, including
Buenaventura Báez,
Ramón Báez,
José María Cabral,
Marcos Cabral, and
Donald Reid-Cabral. Her grandfather,
Mario Fermín Cabral y Báez drafted the bill that in 1935 renamed the Dominican capital,
Santo Domingo, for
Trujillo City in honor of dictator
Rafael Trujillo. She was also second cousin of late businessman
Juan Bautista Vicini Cabral and is a half-cousin of United States congressman
Adriano Espaillat. In the late 1950s her father defected to Argentina and received
political asylum, where the Cabral family lived for 17 years before returning to the Dominican Republic, except for a sister of Peggy who remained in Argentina. She married young to Diego Fidel Raúl Degaudenzi Rizzo, an
Argentine of Italian descent, with whom she had three children, who have given to them twelve grandchildren, including author Manuel Vallejo. of whom she's the widow . She studied business administration at the
University of Buenos Aires. During her youth she lived in Argentina, Spain, Chile and Brazil. == Political career ==