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11 Facts About Federico Salas

1.

Luis Federico Salas-Guevara Schultz was a Peruvian politician.

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Federico Salas was the 49th Prime Minister of Peru in 2000, being the final prime minister of President Alberto Fujimori's decade-long rule.

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Federico Salas was born in Lima on September 4,1950, son of Federico Salas Guevara Alarco and Edith Schultz Macchiavello.

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Federico Salas's childhood was spent in Huancavelica and later he traveled to Lima, doing his primary studies at the Inmaculado Corazon de Maria de Miraflores School and secondary studies at the Santa Maria Marianistas School.

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Federico Salas married in the first nuptials with Lyriam Succar, with whom he had 4 children, and in the second nuptials with Rosario Serpa Masias with whom he had a daughter.

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Federico Salas returned to Lima to study administration at the Peruvian Institute of Business Administration and marketing at ESAN.

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Federico Salas ran for President of Peru in the 2000 elections under the Avancemos ticket but lost to President Alberto Fujimori.

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Federico Salas served between 28 July to 21 November 2000 when Fujimori was ousted from power.

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Federico Salas was Mayor of Huancavelica, and then Governor of Huancavelica Region from January 1,2007, until December 31,2010.

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Federico Salas died on 28 April 2021, from COVID-19, at age 70.

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In 2014, the Special Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court determined that Carlos Bolona, Bergamino and Federico Salas endorsed the delivery of US$15 million to Vladimiro Montesinos as "compensation" for his ten years of service in the Fujimori regime.