Luis Federico Salas-Guevara Schultz (4 September 1950 – 28 April 2021) was a
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politician
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. He was the 49th
Prime Minister of Peru
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in 2000, being the final prime minister of
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Alberto Fujimori
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Biography
Federico Salas was born in
Lima
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on September 4, 1950. Son of Federico Salas Guevara Alarco and Edith Schultz Macchiavello.
His childhood was spent in Huancavelica and later he traveled to Lima, doing his primary studies at the Inmaculado Corazón de María de Miraflores School and secondary studies at the Santa María Marianistas School.
He married in the first nuptials with Lyriam Succar, with whom he had 4 children, and in the second nuptials with Rosario Serpa Masías with whom he had a daughter.
After the death of his brother, he assumed the management of his assets until in 1973 his family's lands were exported by the agrarian reform.
He returned to Lima to study administration at the
Peruvian Institute of Business Administration (IPAE) and marketing at ESAN.
In 1993 he created the Center for Research, Promotion and Development in support of Huancavelica.
He ran for President of Peru in the
2000 elections
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under the
Avancemos ticket but lost to President
Alberto Fujimori
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. In an effort to reconcile with the opposition, President Alberto Fujimori, appointed Salas as Prime Minister. He served between 28 July to 21 November 2000 when Fujimori was ousted from power.
He was Mayor of
Huancavelica
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[Smith, William C. (2009) ''Latin American Democratic Transformations: Institutions, Actors, Processes'', Wiley-Blackwell, , p. 346] and then Governor of
Huancavelica Region
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from January 1, 2007, until December 31, 2010.
Salas died on 28 April 2021, from
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, at age 70.
Controversies
In 2005, the Supreme Court sentenced him to 3 years in suspended prison, to the payment of a reparation of three million soles, and a two-year disqualification, for the crimes of ideological falsehood, illicit association to commit a crime and embezzlement. According to Ideele Radio, the former prime minister was prosecuted for having signed an Emergency Decree that expanded the Ministry of Defense's specifications by 69 million soles to allegedly implement a military plan against the Colombian FARC, which was never carried out.
In 2014, the Special Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court determined that
Carlos Boloña, Bergamino and Salas endorsed the delivery of US $ 15 million to Vladimiro Montesinos as "compensation" for his ten years of service in the Fujimori regime. For this they were sentenced to four years in suspended prison.
See also
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Huancavelica Region
Huancavelica () is a department and region in Peru with an area of and a population of 347,639 ( 2017 census). The capital is the city Huancavelica. The region is bordered by the departments of Lima and Ica in the west, Junín in the north, ...
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1950 births
2021 deaths
Prime Ministers of Peru
Fujimorista politicians
People from Lima
Mayors of places in Peru
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru
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