Guido Bellido Ugarte (born 7 August 1979) is a Peruvian politician of

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heritage, an

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and economist. He served as

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from 29 July to 6 October 2021. He is also serving as a member of the

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, representing

Cuzco Cusco, often spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu ()), is a city in Southeastern Peru near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region and of the Cusco Province. The city is the seventh most populous in Peru; ...

Early life

Bellido Ugarte was born to a

family in Livitaca on 7 August 1979. He has a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering and a master's degree in economics with a major in public management and regional development. He carried out his higher studies at the National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco.

Political career

Until 2018, he was a member of the Arriba Peru Adelante party, where he served as a legal representative, and later joined the

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party where he served as a regional secretary general in Cuzco. He was elected to the

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at the 2021 general election as a member of Free Peru. In May 2021, the Office of the Prosecutor Against Terrorism opened an investigation against Guido Bellido for the alleged crime of "apology to terrorism", following an interview where he spoke about the

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: "The country was in a disastrous state in 1980. Some Peruvians took the wrong path. Are they Peruvians or not? They have rights. What do you have against the members of the Shining Path?" he had said in an interview with an online media".

Prime Minister of Peru

He was named

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Pedro Castillo José Pedro Castillo Terrones (; born 19 October 1969) is a Peruvian politician, former elementary school teacher, and union leader who served as the president of Peru, President of Peru from 28 July 2021 to 7 December 2022. On 7 December 2022, ...

on 29 July 2021. During his inaugural speech to congress, Bellido spoke entirely in

and was booed by opposition congressmen demanding that he speak in

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; Bellido finished his speech dedicating it "to all those Peruvians who died without ever understanding a word said in this Congress". As his first act as prime minister, Bellido traveled to

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to mediate between indigenous groups and the

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, directly negotiating with groups in Quechua and successfully establishing an agreement between the two parties. On September 26, Bellido warned companies which drill for gas in the country to either pay higher taxes or face

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. On 6 October, Bellido resigned as President of the Council of Ministers, after President Castillo asked for his resignation.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bellido, Guido 1979 births Living people Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru Free Peru politicians Prime Ministers of Peru Peruvian Marxists People from Cusco Region 21st-century Peruvian politicians National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco alumni Quechua politicians