Juan Victoriano Incháustegui Vargas (4 March 1938 – 16 February 2019) was a Peruvian politician who served as Minister of Energy and Mines, Minister of Industry, Foreign Trade and Tourism and as a

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Biography

Born in

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, studied Electrical Engineering at the

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and participated in the High Direction program from the

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. In the period from 1981 to 1984, he was General Manager of Electroperú S.A and in the nineties, he joined Cementos Pacasmayo as director. He was executive director and Vice President of TECSUP. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Engineering and Technology. He joined the Hochschild Group in 1986 and remained as director until January 2015. He was a member of the Board of Innóvate Peru Program of the Ministry of Production.

Political career

In March 1984,

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appointed him Minister of Energy and Mines, position in which he remained until July 1985. In the municipal elections of 1989, he applied to the Provincial Government of

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for

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, being in second place with 26.79% of the votes. He applied to the Senate in 1990 for FREDEMO, being elected with 87,451 votes. His parliamentary work was interrupted by the

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on 5 April 1992, which led to the dissolution of the Congress of the Republic. For the general elections of 1995 he ran for First Vice President in the list headed by

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; however, they only received 1.64% of the votes. In November 2000, the temporary president,

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, appointed him Minister of the Presidency.9 In January 2001, he resigned his post and was appointed Minister of Industry, Tourism, Integration and International Trade Negotiations, office in which he remained until July 2001. He received the Order of the Sun in 1985.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Incháustegui, Juan 1938 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Peruvian engineers Members of the Senate of Peru Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru Peruvian Ministers of Energy and Mines People from Arequipa National University of Engineering alumni Recipients of the Order of the Sun of Peru Popular Action (Peru) politicians