Wilder Félix Calderón Castro (born 18 July 1947) is a

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vian politician. He is a former

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, elected in the

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, representing the

Ancash region Ancash ( qu, Anqash; es, Áncash ) is a department and region in northern Peru. It is bordered by the departments of La Libertad on the north, Huánuco and Pasco on the east, Lima on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Its capital i ...

for the 2006–2011 term. He lost his seat in the

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, when he ran for re-election, but he received a low number of votes and was not re-elected. In the 2014 regional elections, he ran for Regional President of Ancash, but he was not elected, as he received only 3.1% of the vote. Calderón belongs to the Peruvian Aprista Party and graduated from the Federico Villareal National University.

Biography

He was born in Sihuas, department of Áncash, on July 18, 1947. Son of Alejandro Calderón Asteis and Lucía Castro Ponce. He completed his primary studies in his hometown and secondary in the San Pedro de Chimbote Educational Center. Between 1965 and 1969 he studied at the Faculty of Education of the

Federico Villarreal National University Federico Villarreal National University ( es, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, UNFV) is a public university located in Lima, Peru. It was named in honor of the Peruvian mathematician Federico Villarreal. History It first functioned ...

, graduating as a professor and in 2011 he began studying law at the Alas Peruanas University. During his studies at Federico Villarreal University, he was part of the Peruvian Aprista Party. In 1973 he founded, together with Manuel Robles Morales and Ciro Ramos Salas, the CEPEA Higher Education Institute, of which he is General Manager. Likewise, together with the then also member of the Aprista Party

Enrique Cornejo Enrique Javier Cornejo Ramirez (born 2 June 1956) is a Peruvian politician who was the former Minister of Transportation and Communications that was under President Alan García from September 2010 to July 2011. Prior to that, he was the Minist ...

, he promoted the creation of the Universidad Peruana Simón Bolívar, which was an integral part of the CEPEA group and whose licensing was denied by SUNEDU in February 2019.

References

External links

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Living people 1947 births American Popular Revolutionary Alliance politicians Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru {{Peru-politician-stub Federico Villarreal National University alumni 21st-century Peruvian politicians People from Ancash Region