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Broad Front (Peru)
The Broad Front for Justice, Life and Liberty ( es, Frente Amplio por Justicia, Vida y Libertad),El Frente Amplio for Justicia, Vida y Libertad: datos generales ("general data"), ''Observatorio para la Gobernabilidad'' (in ) or simply Broad Front ( es, Frente Amplio), is a major of parties, political organizations, social movements and activist citizens of whose main objecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verónika Mendoza
Verónika Fanny Mendoza Frisch (born 9 December 1980) is a Peruvian-French psychologist, educator, and politician. She is the founder and current leader of the New Peru movement. Born in Cuzco to a Peruvian father and French mother, Mendoza pursued her education in Paris, France, majoring in psychology at the Paris Diderot University. She continued her graduate education at the New Sorbonne University, attaining a master's in social sciences. Upon the completion of her graduate education abroad, she established back in Peru in order to start a career in politics. Initially a member of the Peruvian Nationalist Party, Mendoza was elected to the Peruvian Congress in 2011. Representing the constituency of Cuzco, she quit the Nationalist caucus in 2012 in order to start her own political party, the Sowing Movement. Subsequently, she agreed in constituting the Broad Front coalition. Announcing her candidacy for President of Peru at the 2016 general election, she easily attaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Tumbes
Tumbes () is a coastal department and region in northwestern Peru bordering Ecuador. Due to the region's location near the Equator it has a warm climate, with beaches that are considered among the finest in Peru. Despite its small area, the region contains a wide variety of ecosystems. It is the smallest department in Peru and its third least populous department after Moquegua and Madre de Dios, but it is also its third most densely populated department, after La Libertad and Lambayeque. The name "Tumbes" originates from either ''Tumpis'', a group of native peoples from the area, the word ''tumbos'', a species of Passiflora that used to abound in the area, or the name of the Tumba cacique, whose son founded and populated the area. Geography The Tumbes Region is bordered by the Ecuadorian provinces of El Oro and Loja on the east; Peru's Piura Region on the south; and by the Pacific Ocean on the north and west. Morphologically, four zones can be defined in the region: the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Diez Canseco
Javier Diez Canseco Cisneros (March 24, 1948 – May 4, 2013) was a Peruvian politician and member of the Peruvian Congress representing the Socialist Party of Peru (PS), of which he was a founding member and also served as its Party President. Early life Javier Diez Canseco was born to a well-to-do Lima family. His parents were Santiago Luis Diez Canseco Magill and Maria del Carmen Cisneros Sanchez. He is a descendant of 19th Century military hero, General Manuel Diez Canseco y Corbacho, and is related to President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. His father, a banker, was general manager of the Banco Popular del Perú, which afforded the family a high level of material comfort. In his first year of life, Diez Canseco was afflicted with poliomyelitis, which left him with a permanent limp in his left leg. He has credited his experiences with his disability as having helped him to come to understand inequality and injustice. He received his schooling in Lima's Colegio Inmaculado Cora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Dammert
Manuel Dammert Ego Aguirre (8 March 1949 – 25 March 2021) was a Peruvian politician and sociologist. He served in the Congress of the Republic of Peru for Lima Metropolitana from 1980 to 1992 and 2013 to 2019. Biography Dammert was born in the Miraflores District of Lima on 8 March 1949 to Manuel Dammert Bellido and Julia Ego-Aguirre Prideaux. He studied sociology at the National University of San Marcos, where he earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree. In the 1980 Peruvian general election, Dammert ran for Congress as a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party. He ran again in 1985, joining the United Left coalition. He was again reelected in 1990, but his mandate was interrupted by the 1992 Peruvian coup d'état. Dammert returned to politics in 2011, when he ran for Congress as part of the Peru Wins party, but failed to be elected. When Congressman Javier Diez Canseco died on 4 May 2013, he was replaced by Dammert for the remainder of the term. In 2016, he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yonhy Lescano
Yonhy Lescano Ancieta (born 15 February 1959) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician belonging to the Popular Action party. He was a Congressman between 2001 until the dissolution of the Congress by Martín Vizcarra in 2019. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the Popular Action party's national secretary-general. He was the Popular Action's presidential nominee in the 2021 general election and placed fifth in an atomized race of 18 nominees. Education From 1976 to 1980, Yonhy Lescano studied law at the Catholic University of Santa María in Arequipa. From 1984 to 2001, he worked as an independent lawyer in his own town in Puno. Additionally, he was a professor, lecturing law at the National University of the Altiplano (UNA) in Puno, from 1985 to 2001. Political career In the 2000 elections, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Congress under Luis Castañeda's National Solidarity. Congressman In the 2001 elections, he was elected as Congressman to represent the Puno Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde
Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde (born 6 June 1949, in Lima), is a Peruvian lawyer and politician belonging to the Popular Action (Peru), Popular Action and a former Congress of the Republic of Peru, Congressman representing Lima between 2006 and 2019. He was president of the Popular Action from 2004 to 2009. Early life and education Víctor Andrés García descends from a family that has been linked to Peruvian politics for a long time. His great-grandfather General Pedro Diez Canseco was three times interim President of Peru in the 1860s. His grandfather, the influential thinker, writer and diplomat Víctor Andrés Belaúnde was President of the United Nations General Assembly from 1959 to 1960 and his uncle Fernando Belaúnde Terry was the founder of the Popular Action (Peru), Popular Action and twice democratically elected President (1963–1968 and 1980–1985). His brother, José Antonio García Belaúnde has served as foreign minister during the Second presidency of Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lima Province
Lima Province is located in the central coast of Peru and is the only province in the country not belonging to any of the twenty-five regions. Its capital is Lima, which is also the nation's capital. Despite its small area, this province is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Peruvian economy. It concentrates almost one-third of the country's population and 50% of Peru's GDP in 2012. History The province was created in 1821 as Peru's territory was divided into departments, provinces, districts and parishes. The province was part of the Lima Department, which was formed by the territories of present-day Lima, Callao and Ica regions, and the provinces of Casma, Huarmey and Santa, which later would be part of the ''La Costa Department''. The department was further subdivided as time passed but the Lima Province kept being part of it. Due to the massive migration from other areas of the country, the need to separate the province from the rest of the department w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Huánuco
Huánuco () is a department and region in central Peru. It is bordered by the La Libertad, San Martín, Loreto and Ucayali regions in the north, the Ucayali Region in the east, the Pasco Region in the south and the Lima and Ancash regions in the west. Its capital is the city Huánuco. Huánuco has a rough topography comprising parts of the Sierra and the High Jungle (mountain rim) regions. Being equidistant from the north and the south of the country, it has the privilege of having a mild weather with an average annual temperature of 20 °C (68 °F). This region is important for its geographical location, history, and for the richness of its land, where the presence of man goes back to ancient times. ''El Hombre de Lauricocha'' (Man of Lauricocha) is among the most distinctive examples, dating from 10,000 BC, as well as Kotosh, where vestiges of the oldest settlement in the Americas (4200 BC) took place. Several ethnic groups inhabited this region. However, afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Cuzco
Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu suyu ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de Dios and Puno on the east; Arequipa on the south; and Apurímac, Ayacucho and Junín on the west. Its capital is Cusco, the historical capital of the Inca Empire. Geography The plain of Anta contains some of the best communal cultivated lands of the Department of Cusco. It is located about above sea level and is used to cultivate mainly high altitude crops such as potatoes, tarwi (edible lupin), barley and quinoa. Provinces * Acomayo ( Acomayo) * Anta (Anta) * Calca ( Calca) * Canas (Yanaoca) * Canchis (Sicuani) * Chumbivilcas (Santo Tomás) * Cusco (Cusco) * Espinar (Yauri) * La Convención (Quillabamba) * Paruro ( Paruro) * Paucartambo ( Paucartambo) * Quispicanchi (Urcos) * Urubamba ( Urubamba) Languages According to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesías Guevara
Mesías Antonio Guevara Amasifuén (born 13 June 1963) is a Peruvian politician and engineer, currently serving as the Governor of Cajamarca since 2019. A member of the Popular Action party, he currently serves as the party's president since 2014. He was previously a Congressman, representing Cajamarca between 2011 and 2016. Early life and education Guevara was born in the northern city of Chiclayo to a middle-class family on 13 June 1963. Upon completing his elementary education at an Adventist education in Jaén, Cajamarca, he was enrolled in the Elías Aguirre Military School of Chiclayo, from which he graduated in 1983 with a specialty in mechanics. In 1987, he graduated as an electronic engineer from the Ricardo Palma University in Lima. In 2001, he completed a master's degree in administration at the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences. In addition, he holds a diploma in Advanced Studies from the University of Seville, from which he is currently a business adminis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
