Aída del Carmen Jesús Consuelo García-Naranjo Morales (born 20 March 1951), also known by her nickname "Mocha", is a Peruvian educator, singer, and politician, the former Secretary General of the
Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...
and spokesperson of
Gana Perú, the alliance of former President
Ollanta Humala
Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso (; born 27 June 1962) is a Peruvian politician and former military officer who served as president of Peru from 2011 to 2016. Originally a socialist and left-wing nationalist, he is considered to have shifted towar ...
.
She was the first
Minister of Women and Social Development in the Humala government.
She served as the
ambassador of Peru to Uruguay from January 2012 to June 2014. Since February 2012, she has also been the Peruvian representative to
Mercosur
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and the
Latin American Integration Association
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(ALADI).
Biography
Aída García Naranjo studied education at the
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (, PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1917 with the support and approval of the Catholic church, being the oldest private institution of higher learning in the country.
The Peru ...
. She also has a master's degree in political science and government from the same university and two – in "Migrations, Globalization, and International Relations" and "Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights" – from
Cayetano Heredia University
Cayetano Heredia University (, UPCH; or simply ''Cayetano Heredia'') is a private nonprofit university located in Lima, Peru. It was named in honor of Cayetano Heredia, one of the eminent Peruvian physicians of the 19th century. The universit ...
.
She was a councilor of the Municipality of Metropolitan
Lima
Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...
from 1990 to 1993. She was director of ''Mujeres'' Magazine from 1995 to 2011, and since 2011 she has been the executive director of the Center for Rights and Development (CEDAL).
She has been a member of the Consultative Council of the Peasant Confederation of Peru, advises the Secretariat of Women's Affairs, and also advised the National Women's Mining Center from 2002 to 2008.
She is a member of "Espacios Sin Fronteras" (
UNASUR's migrations network) and Honorary Cultural Attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of Nicaragua in Peru. She was an officer of the General Peru-Canada Countervalue Fund.
She is also a member of the musical group
Tiempo Nuevo, and graduated from the .
She is the author of 14 books, many of them on
feminism
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in Peru. Among her works are ''Nosotras las mujeres del Vaso de Leche'', ''Construyendo la equidad: El futuro como tarea'', ''Hombres y mujeres de igual a igual'', ''Mujer Peruana Situación Nacional'', ''La plataforma nacional de la Mujer Peruana'', and ''Mujeres Notables 1900–2010''.
Minister of Women
She became the head of the
Ministry of Women and Social Development on 28 July 2011.
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PRONAA scandal
On 20 September 2011, three children were poisoned and died after eating food from the National Food Assistance Program (PRONAA), a body under the Ministry of Women and Social Development. Hours later García Naranjo continued with activities to celebrate one of the institutions (for which she would later apologize). Afterward the parliamentarians of Force 2011
Popular Force (, FP), known as Force 2011 () until 2012, is a right-wing populist and Fujimorist political party in Peru. The party is led by Keiko Fujimori, former congresswoman and daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori. She ran unsuc ...
criticized the minister's inaction and asked for her interpellation, which was not supported by the other parliamentary groups. Days later six other children and a teacher were sickened by food from the same institution.
García Naranjo presented herself to the Congress of the Republic on 6 October, and on 13 October, the body rejected the motion of censure against her.
See also
* Humala administration
References
External links
*
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1951 births
Ambassadors of Peru to Uruguay
Government ministers of Peru
Living people
Peruvian educators
Peruvian women educators
20th-century Peruvian women singers
20th-century Peruvian singers
Peruvian feminists
Peruvian women activists
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru alumni
Singers from Lima
Socialist Party (Peru) politicians
Women government ministers of Peru
Women's ministers of Peru