Doris Alejandrina Gutiérrez (born 21 August 1947) is a Honduran lawyer and politician, who is currently the

Vice President of Honduras The vice presidents of Honduras, officially the Designates to the Presidency (), is the second highest political position in Honduras. According to the current constitution, the president and vice-presidents are elected in the same ticket. From ...

. She was a Representative in the

National Congress of Honduras The National Congress () is the legislative branch of the government of Honduras. Organization The Honduran Congress is a unicameral legislature. The nominal President of the National Congress of Honduras is currently Luis Redondo. Its m ...

belonging to the

Innovation and Unity Party The Innovation and Unity Party—Social Democracy (, PINU-SD) is a social democratic political party in Honduras, established in 1970. PINU was created by Miguel Andonie Fernández as a democratic, moderate left-wing alternative to the two maj ...

. In popular Honduran culture, Gutiérrez has the nickname "The Dancing Representative."

Biography

Doris Gutiérrez was born on 21 August 1947 in Comayagüela, and is the daughter of Martha Gutiérrez and Armando Uclés Sierra, and sister to José de la Paz Herrera. She was raised by her single mother and grandmother. Gutiérrez completed her primary studies at the Universidad José Cecilio del Valle, then graduated from the Sacred Heart Institute in Tegucigalpa as a teacher with high marks, going on to win further academic honors while studying education. She found her first teaching job in

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger, more populous island of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the country. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is the southernmost island in ...

, in the Santa Bárbara Department, and would work here for 14 years teaching. While working with organized labor she decided to enter politics and in 1995, she joined the

Democratic Unification Party The Democratic Unification Party (; PUD) is a centre-left political party in Honduras. PUD was founded on 29 September 1992 by the merger of four leftist clandestine or semiclandestine political parties, in the context of the changed political sit ...

as the substitute deputy of Matías Fúnez. In December 2015, Gutiérrez was awarded the Maya Award by the Mexican Institute of Evaluation. In early March 2016, Gutiérrez announced two new projects: to have the Gualcarque river declared an area of National Heritage and to officially declare Berta Cáceres, who worked to protect the river, a national heroine and name the area after her. In the aftermath of a 2017 student demonstration at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras following the charging of Cesario Padilla, Moisés Cáceres, and Sergio Ulloa with

usurpation A usurper is an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy. In other words, one who takes the power of a country, city, or established region for oneself, without any formal or legal right to claim it a ...

by the Honduran Supreme Court, Gutiérrez found herself amongst other politicians accused of orchestrating the demonstration by Julieta Castellanos.

Citations

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gutierrez, Doris 1947 births Living people Honduran people of Spanish descent Honduran women lawyers 20th-century Honduran lawyers Deputies of the National Congress of Honduras 21st-century Honduran women politicians 21st-century Honduran politicians Democratic Unification Party politicians Innovation and Unity Party politicians People from Tegucigalpa Vice presidents of Honduras Women vice presidents of Honduras 20th-century women lawyers