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Jorge Alejandro Villavicencio Álvarez (1958 – 20 July 2020) was a Guatemalan surgeon and politician who served as the Minister of Public Health and Social Assistance from 2 May 2012 to 24 September 2014 during the
presidency A presidency is an administration or the executive, the collective administrative and governmental entity that exists around an office of president of a state or nation. Although often the executive branch of government, and often personified b ...
of
Otto Pérez Molina 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 ...
. In 2019, Villavicencio was arrested and sent to a private military prison over
corruption Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense that is undertaken by a person or an organization that is entrusted in a position of authority to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's gain. Corruption may involve activities ...
accusations. The charges including giving public work contracts to those commissioners benefitting him and also creating fake job positions in the Ministry while he was in charge. Villavicencio died of
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during the COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala at a hospital in
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on July 20, 2020, aged 62.Exministro Jorge Villavicencio muere por covid-19


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