Otilia Lux de Cotí is a
Guatemalan social leader and politician.
She was a member of that country's
Historical Clarification Commission In 1994 Guatemala's Commission for Historical Clarification - La Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH) - was created as a response to the thousands of atrocities and human rights violations committed during the decades long civil war th ...
, charged with investigating the
human rights violation
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s committed during the
Central America
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n nation's 30-year-long civil war. She was later chosen to serve as Minister of Culture and Sport in the cabinet of
President
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Alfonso Portillo
Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera (born 24 September 1951) is a Guatemalan politician who served as President of Guatemala from 2000 to 2004.
He took office on 14 January 2000, representing the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG), the party then ...
. She was a member of the
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
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at the
United Nations
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, and she served on
UNESCO
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's Executive Board for the 2004–2007 period.
In the 9 September 2007
general election, she was elected to
Congress
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as a national list deputy for the
Encuentro por Guatemala
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part
External links
Otilia Lux – Profile
Members of the Congress of Guatemala
Guatemalan people of Maya descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Government ministers of Guatemala
Encuentro por Guatemala politicians
Women government ministers of Guatemala
21st-century Guatemalan women politicians
21st-century Guatemalan politicians
Social leaders
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