Federico Salas Guevara

Luis Federico "Pico" Salas Guevara Schultz (born September 4, 1950 in Lima , † April 28, 2021 in Huancavelica ) was a Peruvian politician who, among other things, was Prime Minister of Peru for a few months in 2000 .

Life

After attending the Colegio Inmaculado Corazón and the Colegio Santa María Marianistas, Salas Guevara studied at the Instituto Peruano de Administración de Empresas (IPAE) and later worked as an entrepreneur. In 1980 he became director of the Banco de los Andes . On January 1, 1996, as a non-party , he became mayor ( Alcalde ) of Huancavelica , a 40,000-inhabitant town in the Andes and capital of the Huancavelica region, for the first time as the successor to Emma Paulina Vargas de Benavides . In 1999 he was nominated for the Movimiento Descentralista Ahora Perú re-elected for a second three-year term. In the presidential elections in 2000, he ran for the Agrupación Independiente Avancemos , and in the first ballot on April 9, 2000, he came fourth out of nine candidates with 247,054 votes (2.23 percent).

As the successor to Alberto Bustamante Belaunde , Salas Guevara was appointed Prime Minister of Peru (Presidente del Consejo de Ministros) on July 29, 2000 by President Alberto Fujimori, who was re-elected in the second ballot on May 28, 2000 . In his cabinet, Carlos Boloña Behr took over the office of Minister for Economics and Finance, while he himself also held the office of Minister of Education (Ministro de Educación) . He held the post of Prime Minister until his replacement by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar on November 22, 2000, while Marcial Rubio Correa was his successor as Minister of Education. In 2002 it was alleged that he was involved in a murder.

On January 1, 2007, Salas Guevara, who was running for the Proyecto Integracionista de Comunidades Organizadas (PICO), replaced Salvador Espinoza Huarocc from the Movimiento Mincap as governor of the Huancavelica region . In 2010 he ran for a further four-year term, but was defeated by Maciste Alejandro Díaz Abad from Movimiento Independiente Trabajando para Todos (MITT), who took office on January 1, 2011. In 2011 he was sentenced to four years probation for embezzlement during his tenure, and in 2014 his property was publicly auctioned to settle compensation payments of three million Nuevo Sol . In an interview in August 2015, he said that he regretted having been Prime Minister under President Alberto Fujimori.

He died on April 28, 2021 at the age of 70 from complications from COVID-19 .

Web links

• Entry in rulers.org
• Private blog spot

Individual evidence

1. ↑ July 2000: 29. In: rulers.org. Accessed April 29, 2021 . 
2. ^ Peru reconstituted: Prime ministers (presidents of the Council of Ministers). In: rulers.org. Accessed April 29, 2021 . 
3. ↑ Ex esposa denuncia a ex ministro Salas. In: LaRepublica.pe . May 17, 2002, archived from the original on September 24, 2018 ; accessed on April 29, 2021 (Spanish). 
4. ↑ Ben Cahoon: Regions of Peru: Huancavelica: Presidents of the Region. In: worldstatesmen.org. Accessed April 29, 2021 . 
5. ↑ El Relincho de Salas: Ex premier Federico Salas contó cómo Montesinos pagaba a los ex ministros fujimoristas. Fue la nota cumbre en una semana llena de revelaciones escandalosas. (No longer available online.) In: Caretas. December 1, 2000, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 29, 2021 (Spanish).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Hoy rematan casa de ex ministro fujimorista Federico Salas. In: El Comercio . November 27, 2011, accessed April 29, 2021 (Spanish). 
    
6. ↑ Federico Salas se arrepiente de haber sido Premier de Fujimori. In: Diario Correo. August 17, 2015, accessed April 29, 2021 (Spanish). 
7. ↑ Fallece extitular de la PCM Federico Salas Guevara. In: andina.pe. April 28, 2021, accessed April 29, 2021 (Spanish).