Juan Victoriano Incháustegui Vargas (4 March 1938 – 16 February 2019) was a Peruvian politician who served as
Minister of Energy and Mines,
Minister of Industry, Foreign Trade and Tourism and as a
Senator
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.
Biography
Born in
Arequipa
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, studied Electrical Engineering at the
National University of Engineering and participated in the High Direction program from the
University of Piura. In the period from 1981 to 1984, he was General Manager of Electroperú S.A and in the nineties, he joined Cementos Pacasmayo as director. He was executive director and Vice President of TECSUP.
He was a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Engineering and Technology. He joined the Hochschild Group in 1986 and remained as director until January 2015. He was a member of the Board of Innóvate Peru Program of the Ministry of Production.
Political career
In March 1984,
President Fernando Belaúnde Terry appointed him Minister of Energy and Mines, position in which he remained until July 1985.
In the municipal elections of 1989, he applied to the Provincial Government of
Lima
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for
FREDEMO, being in second place with 26.79% of the votes.
He applied to the Senate in 1990 for FREDEMO, being elected with 87,451 votes. His parliamentary work was interrupted by the
self-coup by
Alberto Fujimori on 5 April 1992, which led to the
dissolution of the Congress of the Republic.
For the
general elections of 1995 he ran for First Vice President in the list headed by
Raúl Diez Canseco; however, they only received 1.64% of the votes.
In November 2000, the temporary president,
Valentín Paniagua, appointed him
Minister of the Presidency. In January 2001, he resigned his post and was appointed Minister of Industry, Tourism, Integration and International Trade Negotiations, office in which he remained until July 2001.
Award
He received the
Order of the Sun in 1985.
References
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1938 births
2019 deaths
20th-century Peruvian engineers
Members of the Senate of Peru
Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru
Ministers of energy and mines of Peru
People from Arequipa
National University of Engineering alumni
Recipients of the Order of the Sun of Peru
Popular Action (Peru) politicians
21st-century Peruvian engineers
21st-century Peruvian politicians