Hugo Martínez

Hugo Martínez (2014)

Hugo Roger Martínez Bonilla (born January 2, 1968 in Concepción de Oriente ) is a politician from El Salvador .

biography

After attending school, he first studied engineering at the University of El Salvador and at the University of Toulouse , from which he graduated with a master's degree. He then completed postgraduate studies in business administration at the Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas” and in human capital management at the Universidad Latina de Costa Rica. As a student, he joined student movements and in 1988 became Secretary General of the Society of Salvadoran Agricultural Students. He was also chairman of the technical committees of the Union of University Students. Later he was Assistant to the Secretary General of the Council of Universities of Central America and then Director of External Relations at the University of El Salvador.

After the end of the civil war , which lasted from 1980 to 1991 , he began his political career as the first national youth coordinator of the Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN). In 1994 he became a Deputy Member of the Legislative Assembly and, over time, rose to become a member of the Political Commission of the FMLN.

In 2003 he was elected member of the Legislative Assembly and has been a member of the FMLN parliamentary group ever since. Initially, between 2006 and 2009, he was Chairman of the Committee on Education and Culture and also a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Central American Integration and Salvadorans Abroad. Martínez, who has also been a member of the parliamentary group's executive committee since 2003, was also deputy group chairman of the FMLN from 2008 to 2009.

After the FMLN won the parliamentary elections on January 18, 2009, he initially became chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Central American Integration and Salvadorans Abroad. After Mauricio Funes was elected President , he was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs on June 1, 2009. On August 14, 2013, he was replaced by Jaime Miranda Flamenco .

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