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Otto Pérez Molina
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President of Guatemala (2012-2015)
Key facts
- Vice president
- Roxana Baldetti , (2012–2015) Alejandro Maldonado, (2015)
- Preceded by
- Álvaro Colom
- Succeeded by
- Alejandro Maldonado
- Constituency
- National List
- Born
- Otto Fernando Pérez Molina , ( 1950-12-01 ) 1 December 1950 (age 75) , Guatemala City , Guatemala
- Party
- Patriot Party
- Spouse
- Rosa Leal de Pérez ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1970 ; died 2025 )
- Alma mater
- School of the Americas , Inter-American Defense College
- Cabinet
- Cabinet of Otto Pérez Molina
- Allegiance
- Guatemala
- Branch service
- Guatemalan Army
- Years of service
- 1966–2000
- Rank
- Brigadier General
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Otto
- Family name
- Pérez
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Guatemala
- Place of birth
- Guatemala City
- Spouse
- Rosa Leal de Pérez
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- president of Guatemala
- Educated at
- Inter-American Defense College
- Political party
- Patriotic Party
- Native language
- Spanish
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Award
- Order of the Quetzal
- Conflict
- Guatemalan Civil War
- Military rank
- general
- Official website
- partidopatriota.com
- Image
- Otto Perez Molina at World Economic Forum 2013-cropped.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Convicted of
- smuggling
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- Otto Pérez Molina
- date of birth
- 1950-12-01
- nickname
- Sapo
- second family name in Spanish name
- Molina
- name in native language
- Otto Pérez Molina
- start of work period
- 1966-00-00
- social media followers
- 183512
- P10632
- Otto Pérez Molina
- birth name
- Otto Fernando Pérez Molina
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Encyclopedic overview
Otto Fernando Pérez Molina (born December 1, 1950) is a Guatemalan politician and retired general who served as the 48th president of Guatemala from 2012 to 2015. Standing as the Patriotic Party (Partido Patriota) candidate, he lost the 2007 presidential election but prevailed in the 2011 presidential election. During the 1990s, before entering politics, he served as Director of Military Intelligence, Presidential Chief of Staff under President Ramiro de León Carpio, and as the chief representative of the military for the Guatemalan Peace Accords. On being elected President, he called for the legalization of drugs.
On September 2, 2015, beset by corruption allegations and having been stripped of his immunity by Congress the day earlier, Pérez presented his resignation. He was arrested on September 3, 2015. Following his arrest, Pérez remained in prison until he was released on bond in January 2024; prior to his release, Pérez received convictions and jail sentences in 2022 and 2023.
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