1. Daniel Belizario Urresti Elera was born on 25 August 1956 and is a Peruvian retired army general and politician who served as Minister of the Interior in the administration of President Ollanta Humala from 2014 to 2015, and as a Congressman representing Lima from 2020 to 2021.
Daniel Urresti is currently serving a sentence of twelve years in prison for the murder of journalist Hugo Bustios.
Daniel Urresti was elected to the Peruvian Congress with over half a million votes, attaining the election's highest parliamentary majority.
Daniel Urresti ran for President of Peru at the 2021 general election with Podemos Peru.
Daniel Urresti was born in Huancabamba, Piura on August 25,1956, to a family of four brothers raised by a single mother, Maria Elera.
At age 14, Daniel Urresti took upon diverse jobs to provide for his family as the man of his household, such as a newspaper hawker and at a leather factory.
Daniel Urresti applied among 2000 candidates for one of 200 placements at the Chorrillos Military School, in 1972.
Daniel Urresti was admitted with the first 20 applicants with the highest qualifications.
Daniel Urresti graduated from the Chorrillos Military School in 1978, with the highest honors.
In 2010, Daniel Urresti was promoted to Brigadier General, and under the commanding leadership of Otto Guibovich, led the first telecommunications brigade in the Peruvian Army.
At the start of the Ollanta Humala administration, Daniel Urresti served in the cabinet of advisors of the Prime Minister of Peru, in 2011.
Daniel Urresti was appointed Secretary of Disaster Risk Management of the Office of the Prime Minister.
In 2013, Daniel Urresti was appointed High Commissioner for Mining Formalization Matters, Illegal Mining Interdiction and Environmental Remediation of the Office of the Prime Minister of Peru.
On June 23,2014, Daniel Urresti was sworn in as the sixth Minister of the Interior of President Ollanta Humala's administration, replacing Walter Alban, and integrating the cabinet chaired by Rene Cornejo.
Daniel Urresti quickly stood out for his very active and talkative style, in constant demand for media presence, which made him the main political operator of the Humala administration and the minister with the most popular support in the national polls.
Daniel Urresti was forced to admit that in this case there was an evident police excess.
Daniel Urresti assumed political responsibility for the incident, but the opposition in the Congress argued that this gesture was not enough and demanded his resignation.
On February 17,2015, the cabinet was renewed and Daniel Urresti left the Interior portfolio to Jose Luis Perez Guadalupe, until then head of the National Penitentiary Institute.
Daniel Urresti disapproved his ticket's withdrawal, accusing the administration for his campaign failure due to lack of funds provided by the party, in comparison with Ollanta Humala's successful campaign five years prior.
At one point during the campaign, an anonymous citizen filed before the Lima Central Special Electoral Jury a request to exclude him from race, stating that Daniel Urresti had a suspended sentence of liberty for defamation.
Daniel Urresti argued in his defense that his sentence was not consented or enforced since he had filed a complaint before the Supreme Court.
The jury agreed with Daniel Urresti and allowed him to continue in the race.
Daniel Urresti's party was questioned for serious irregularities in its registration.
Podemos Peru selected Daniel Urresti, who had been serving as Security Manager of Los Olivos District Municipality, as the head of the congressional list for the Lima constituency.
In October 2020, Daniel Urresti announced that he will run for the presidency of the Republic for the second time, with the Podemos Peru party.
Daniel Urresti was nominated by Podemos Peru as their candidate for the 2021 Peruvian presidential election and formally registered his candidacy for the Presidency in December 2020.
Daniel Urresti is accused of having ordered the murder of journalist Hugo Bustios in 1988, when he was a captain in the army and head of intelligence in an anti-subversive barracks in Ayacucho.
At that time, Daniel Urresti was not included in the process.
In June 2013, a judge from Ayacucho opened a new process, but this time accusing Daniel Urresti of being the mediate perpetrator, that is, for having ordered the murder of Bustios.
Vidal's testimony was supported by that of the logistics officer EP Edgardo Montoya Contreras, who indicated that Daniel Urresti left with a patrol of soldiers in civilian clothes to the area where Bustios was killed.
Consequently, Daniel Urresti was accused of being the intellectual author of a crime against life, body and health, in the modality of murder.
Daniel Urresti pointed out that for more than 20 years, he had never been summoned to court or as a witness.
Daniel Urresti assured that he had just learned that the then nicknamed Captain Arturo was Urresti himself, whom he claimed to be able to physically recognize him.
Daniel Urresti, who was present in the Chamber, applauded mockingly and then laughed uproariously, for which the court asked him to leave the Chamber.
The head of the Third Superior National Criminal Prosecutor's Office, Luis Landa, asked the National Criminal Chamber to open a trial against Daniel Urresti, for being the alleged perpetrator of the murder of the reporter Hugo Bustios Saavedra, requesting 25 years in prison and a civil reparation of 500 thousand Suns.
On 13 April 2023, Daniel Urresti was found guilty of premeditated murder of murdering Bustios and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.