Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller (born 16 November 1940) is a Peruvian former engineer and

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politician who served in the cabinet during the presidency of Fernando Belaúnde Terry and Alberto Fujimori in which, he served as Fujimori's first

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from 1990 to 1991 and was the Minister of Agriculture during the presidency of Fernando Belaúnde Terry between 1983 and 1985.

Early life and education

Juan Carlos Hurtado was born on 16 November 1940 in Lima. His parents were former Minister of Health

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and Lily Miller Maertens. He is the first cousin of former

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Violeta Correa Miller, wife of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry and daughter of former Foreign Minister

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as well as a relative of

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. He completed his school studies at the Colegio Sagrados Corazones Recoleta. He entered the

National Agrarian University The National Agrarian University, also formally called National Agrarian University – La Molina (Spanish: ''Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina'') (UNALM), is a public university in Lima, Peru. It is the country's best university in the fi ...

La Molina, where he studied agricultural engineering. He received a master's degree in Agricultural Economics at the University of Iowa. He also received a master's degree in public administration at the

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at Harvard University. He was an assistant researcher at the Harvard Institute for International Development. He was coordinator of the Fondo de Financiamiento de Estudios de Proyectos de Inversión (FINEPI). He married Leonor de Asín Puyo.

Political career

He worked as an agricultural programmer for the National Planning Institute. In the Second Government of President Fernando Belaúnde Terry he was chairman of the board of the Banco Agrario del Perú, director of the

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, president of the Corporación Financiera de Desarrollo (COFIDE). He was a member of the board of directors of Banco Industrial del Perú. On 4 August 1983, he was appointed as Minister of Agriculture by President Fernando Belaúnde Terry. During his tenure as minister, the creation of CERTEX for non-traditional exports was approved. He remained in office until the end of the government in 1985. On 28 July 1990, newly elected President Alberto Fujimori appointed him as

and also at the same time as Minister of Economy and Finance. As minister he was in charge of the announcement of the "Fujishock", a measure that proposed a restructuring of prices to control inflation. He resigned from office in February 1991 following the publication of an alternative economic stabilization program, the continuing failure to fight inflation and the crisis caused by a cholera epidemic. He ran for mayor of Lima in the 1998 local elections under the Vamos Vecino party, losing to

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, who was re-elected for a second term. On 13 October 1999, he returned to the Fujimori government as Minister of Industry, Tourism, Integration and International Trade Negotiations. He remained in the ministry until 28 July 2000. He was accused of receiving funds for his electoral campaign from Intelligence chief

Vladimiro Montesinos Vladimiro Lenin Ilich Montesinos Torres (born 20 May 1945) is a former long-standing head of Peru's intelligence service, National Intelligence Service (SIN), under President Alberto Fujimori. In the year 2000, the infamous "Vladi-videos" came ...

, for which he went into hiding in 2000. The delivery of these funds is documented in a vladi-videos secretly filmed by Vladimiro Montesinos. Surprisingly, he was handed over to justice on 13 April 2011.

References

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