15 Facts About Roxana Baldetti

Roxana Baldetti was raised by her mother, who owned a beauty salon, in a conservative, Catholic household in the working-class neighborhood Colonia Primero de Julio neighborhood of Guatemala City.

Roxana Baldetti attended Colegio Monte Carmelo for primary school and graduated from El Sagrado Corazon de Jesus in Guatemala City's Centro Historico neighborhood as a primary education teacher.

Roxana Baldetti was first runner-up in the 1980 Miss Guatemala competition.

Roxana Baldetti then co-founded TV Noticias and worked at Univision as a correspondent from Guatemala for the show Primer Impacto.

Roxana Baldetti has been accused of heading censorship of the media in Serrano's favor, which she denies.

Roxana Baldetti left the Press Office in 1994 after being accused by the State of taking equipment from the office.

Roxana Baldetti did not attend her court date, and the case was eventually dropped without resolution due to lack of substantial evidence.

Roxana Baldetti spent the next several years in a variety of related spaces: she formed an advertisement production company, taught public relations courses, and finished her journalism degree.

Roxana Baldetti held the role of Block Head starting in 2007.

Part of their platform was focused on fighting corruption, something Roxana Baldetti had worked on while in Congress.

Roxana Baldetti denied the published accusations, claimed she did not know Rossell, and stated that she had worked hard for what she had.

Roxana Baldetti resigned from her post as vice president on May 8,2015, after a United Nations anti-corruption investigation issued arrest warrants for 24 individuals, including her former personal secretary Juan Carlos Monzon Rojas, for involvement in an import bribery scheme.

Roxana Baldetti was detained on fraud charges on August 21,2015, while at the hospital.

Roxana Baldetti was sentenced on 7 December 2022 to 16 years in prison for the graft case but can appeal.

In March 2023, the judge granted permission for Roxana Baldetti to be transported from the prison to her home four days a week to receive pre-operative treatment for back problems.