Ramón Humberto Miranda Ampuero (born October 28, 1926) is a former Peruvian
General officer
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and politician who served as the
Minister of Education.
Biography
He was born in
Chorrillos District
Chorrillos is a district of the Lima Province in Peru and part of the city of Lima. It gets its name from the Spanish word for "trickle of water". The district was founded as San Pedro de los Chorrillos and served as a deluxe beach resort until the ...
, Lima -
Peru
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, to Froylan Miranda Barreto and Manuela Ampuero Corrales. He studied at the Colegio Claretiano in Magdalena del Mar District. On March 13, 1943, he was accepted into the
Military Academy of Chorrillos where he graduated with the rank of Officer on January 1, 1947.
In 1951, he married Maria Eyzaguirre Tizon, and has six sons.
He studied in the Superior War Academy of Military Strategy (Escuela Superior de Guerra de Estrategia Militar) and the Center for Advanced Military Studies (CAEM) in Peru; the Institute for Antiaircraft Artillery and Countersubversive War in Panamá; and the
Command and General Staff College
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in
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
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.
Miranda Ampuero was a member of the Committee for the Assessment of the Presidency of the Republic of Peru (1971–1974), President of the Peruvian Telephone Directory Agency (1974) and Minister of Education of Peru (1975–1976). He was a functionary of the Peruvian Institute of Infantry Development (1982–1992).
He was awarded with the Military Order Ayacucho in the Official Grade, with the Peruvian Cross for Military Merit (Grand Cross), with the
Order of the Sun, and he was recognized by the Peruvian Air Force. He also published "The Conflicts of Integration".
During his tenure as Minister of Education, he instituted the Escuelas Superiores de Educación Profesional ESEPS (Advanced Institutes of Professional Education) and intensified the Educational Reform program in Peru.
See also
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Ministry of Education (Peru)
References
External links
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Peruvian Ministry of Education (in Spanish)
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1926 births
Living people
Non-U.S. alumni of the Command and General Staff College
Peruvian Ministers of Education
Peruvian generals
Chorrillos Military School alumni
Recipients of the Order of the Sun of Peru
People from Lima Province