Luis Alberto Negreiros Criado (born December 18, 1940) is a

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vian sociologist and politician. He was a former

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, representing

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between 2001 and 2011 and belongs to the

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Education

He is the son of the Aprista union leader, Luis Negreiros Vega and Juana Criado Morales. His father was riddled with bullets by agents of the political police, in the middle of a public street during the dictatorship of General

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on March 23, 1950. He studied

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and

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at the

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, located in

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. He began these studies in 1967, although it is not known when did he graduate.

Career

From 1961 until 1993, even when exercised for public office, he specialized as a dockworker in

. From 1995 until 2001 was as Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Federation Maritime Port.

Political career

Negreiros and the APRA

Luis Negreiros has been a prominent member of

very young. With only 16 years he was the Secretary General of the

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for two years. From 1970 until 1979 he was the Collegiate Secretary General of the Party and in 1980 as a Undersecretary. Finally, in 1987, he was appointed as Secretary General of the Party, a position he held until 1989. In the

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, he was the second running mate of

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in which the ticket was defeated by the ticket of

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of the Popular Action. After

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died, Negreiros was one of the natural leaders of the

but when the 1985 general election began,

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was named as the candidate of the

, Negreiros moved away but eventually returned. In 2001, he reconciled with Garcia.

Congressional career

Constituent Assemblyman and Deputy

In the 1978 Constituent Assembly, he was elected as a member of

, standing alongside

. From 1980 to 1992 he was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies. In 1985, he was elected by the Peruvian Chamber of Deputies as

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for a one-year term. His legislative work was cut short due to the

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of President

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in 1992.

Congressman

In 2001, he was elected Member of the

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, returning after a nine-year absence, representing

, and was reelected in 2006, serving until 2011, when he unsuccessfully ran for re-election due to a low number of votes and subsequently retired from politics.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Negreiros, Luis 1940 births Living people Peruvian sociologists Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies of Peru American Popular Revolutionary Alliance politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Peru Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru 20th-century Peruvian politicians 21st-century Peruvian politicians Federico Villarreal National University alumni