Jorge Del Castillo

Jorge Del Castillo

Infobox Prime Minister
name = Jorge del Castillo



imagesize = 150px
order = Prime Minister of Peru
president = Alan García
term_start = 28 July 2006
term_end =
predecessor = Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
successor = Yehude Simon (Designate)
birth_date = birth date and age|1950|07|02|df=y
birth_place = Lima, Peru
spouse =
party = APRA
alma_mater = National University of San Marcos
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
religion = Roman Catholic

Jorge Alfonso Alejandro Del Castillo Gálvez (Lima, July 2, 1950) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. He was the Prime Minister of Peru. He is also a member and current Secretary-General of the Peruvian Aprista Party. In his career he has served in the now abolished Peruvian Chamber of Deputies, in the Peruvian Congress of the Republic, and as mayor of Lima and Barranco.

Education

Jorge Del Castillo studied law at the National University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru from 1968 to 1974. Between 1993 and 1994 Del Castillo studied Constitutional Law at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

Politics

Del Castillo served as mayor of Barranco Ward, Lima from 1984 to 1986. In 1985 he was appointed by then "Aprista" President Alan Garcia as prefect (appointed state governor) of Lima. In 1987 he was elected as mayor of Metropolitan Lima County running as a member of the Peruvian Aprista Party and served as mayor until 1989. In 1992 when then President Alberto Fujimori dissolved the opposition controlled Congress, Del Castillo helped APRA leader Alan Garcia find refuge in Colombia.

Del Castillo didd not return to politics until 1995 when he was elected to Congress representing Lima. He won re-election to Congress in 2000, 2001, and 2006. In 1999, he became the Secretary-General of the APRA and was confirmed to the position in 2004. He represents the APRA before the Organization of American States.

His cabinet resigned on 10 October 2008 following an oil scandal. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7664803.stm Oil row brings down Peru cabinet] ]

See Also

2008 Peru oil scandal

References

External links

* [http://www.congreso.gob.pe/congresista/2006/jdelcastillo/_hoja-vida.htm Official Congress Profile] "Congress of the Republic of Peru"
* [http://www.apra.org.pe/ Peruvian Aprista Party] "Official Site"


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