Julio Guzmán

Julio Armando Guzmán Cáceres (born 31 July 1970, Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian economist, politician, and leader of the Purple Party. He was formerly the leader of the All for Peru political party, running for president for the party in the 2016 general elections, but was disqualified.

For the Puerto Rican boxer, see Julio Guzman (boxer).
Julio Guzmán
President of the Purple Party
Assumed office
16 October 2016
Preceded byOffice established
Secretary General of the
Office of the Prime Minister of Peru
In office
2 August 2012 – 26 February 2013
PresidentOllanta Humala
Prime MinisterJuan Jiménez
Preceded byMaría Elena Juscamaita
Succeeded byManuel Ángel Clausen Olivares
Deputy Minister of Micro and Small Business and Industry
In office
5 August 2011 – 20 December 2011
PresidentOllanta Humala
Prime MinisterSalomon Lerner
Oscar Valdés
MinisterKurt Burneo
José Antonio Urquizo
Preceded byHugo Rodríguez Espinoza
Succeeded byGladys Triveño
Personal details
Born
Julio Armando Guzmán Cáceres

(1970-07-31) 31 July 1970
Lima, Peru
Political partyPurple Party (2017-present)
Other political
affiliations		All for Peru (2015–2017)
Spouse(s)Ximena Cáceres del Busto (1999-2009)
Michelle Ertischek (2011-)
Children4
Alma materPontifical Catholic University of Peru (BA)
Georgetown University (MPP)
University of Maryland (PhD)

Biography

Julio Armando Guzman Caceres was born on July 31, 1970, in Lima. He is the second youngest of 12 children. His father, an architect by profession, came to Lima from the rural province of Anta in the Cusco Region. His mother is from Celendin in the Cajamarca Region.[1]

Guzman attended Colegio Sagrados Corazones Recoleta high school in Lima.

Guzman joined the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he studied economics and started a career teaching mathematics. Then he studied for a Master's in Public Policy at Georgetown University and continued graduate studies at the University of Oxford before completing his PhD in Public Policy from the University of Maryland.[2]

Professional and political life

He has been an adjunct professor at the School of Public Policy at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and the nearby campus of the University of Maryland.

Guzmán worked for 10 years at the Inter-American Development Bank as an economist in integration and trade.[3] He left to work as a deputy minister in Peru's Ministry of Labor in the government of Ollanta Humala. In 2012, he was appointed secretary general of Peru's Cabinet under Prime Minister Juan Jiménez Mayor.[4] Guzmán resigned from the government in February 2013.

Later he worked as a representative of the international firm Deloitte in Peru.[5]

2016 election campaign

Guzman announced he was running for president of Peru in July 2015. He rose in the polls throughout the final months of 2015 until registering 5% of the vote in January.[6] By February 2016, he had risen to 20% of the vote, second to leading candidate Keiko Fujimori, daughter of Alberto Fujimori.[7]

In March 2016, the National Elections Jury barred him from the election after it found irregularities in the party's internal processes.[8] A later investigation finalized in 2020 found that Guzman's disqualification was a result of corruption by the Cuellos Blancos del Puerto, a Peruvian drug-trafficking network inside the National Jury of Elections.[9]

2021 election campaign

In 2016, Guzman separated from All for Peru and founded the Purple Party. Guzman registered the party in Peru seeking to participate in the 2021 presidential elections.[10] Following allegations surrounding Peruvian officials being involved in the Odebrecht scandal, Guzman stated that the "Odebrecht case is the meteor that will extinguish the dinosaurs" of Peru's political realm.[11]

Personal life

In 2003, Guzmán married Ximena Caceres del Busto, with whom he a son and a daughter. They divorced in 2009. In 2011, he married American citizen Michelle Ertischek, with whom he has two daughters.

References
  1. "Quién Soy". Julio Guzman. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  2. "Julio Guzman". Peru Reports. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  3. Guzmán, Julio; Rey de Marulanda, Nohra; Ugaz, Jorge (September 2006). "The Orientation of Social Spending in Latin America". IADB.
  4. "Julio Guzman". Peru Reports. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  5. Patriau, Enrique (2018-04-29). "Julio Guzmán: "El Congreso pretende perpetuar la dinastía de la corrupción" [VIDEO]". La Republica (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-10-12.
  6. "New voter poll shakes up Peru's presidential race". Peru Reports. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  7. "Peru: Guzman emerges as Fujimori's top contender for president". Peru Reports. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  8. "Julio Guzmán: JNE lo dejó fuera de la carrera electoral". El Comercio (in Spanish). 9 March 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  9. Romero, César. "La red de "Cuellos Blancos del Puerto" también infiltró el JNE, según testigos de fiscalía". La República. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  10. "Julio Guzmán anunció el nombre de su nuevo partido político". La Republica (in Spanish). 2016-05-25. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
  11. "Julio Guzmán: "Caso Odebrecht es el meteorito que extinguirá a los dinosaurios"". RPP (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-10-12.
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