Enrique Javier Cornejo Ramirez (born 2 June 1956) is a Peruvian politician who was the former Minister of Transportation and Communications that was under President

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from September 2010 to July 2011.French diplomacy website
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Biography

Enrique Cornejo graduated from the

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. He has taught at universities in

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and

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. He also taught at the

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Pontifical Catholic University of Peru ( es, link=no, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 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 ...

. From August 2006 to December 2007, he was the CEO of the

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. In 2007, he was appointed the Peruvian Minister of Housing and Construction. In September 2010, he became the Minister of Transportation and Communication.

Candidacy for Mayor of Lima

In the 2014 municipal elections, he ran for

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under the

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, but lost to

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. In April 2017, he announced that he would run again for mayor for the municipal elections of Lima in 2018, founding a provincial organization "Contigo Ciudadano" after his resignation from the

in March of the same year. By failing to meet the signature requirement, he formed an alliance with the

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Party, sealing his candidacy for 2018.

Arrest

On 17 April 2019, the Peruvian judiciary ordered preliminary detention against him and other investigators, for having received alleged bribes from the

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company. Subsequently, the former Minister of Transport was detained by the police as he was leaving a media outlet building.

References

Living people Government ministers of Peru 20th-century Peruvian economists University of Lima alumni Academic staff of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru 1956 births Politicians from Lima American Popular Revolutionary Alliance politicians {{Peru-politician-stub