Vladimir Cerrón
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Vladimir Roy Cerrón Rojas (born Ahuac, Junín, Peru on December 16, 1970) is a neurosurgeon and Peruvian politician. He served as the regional Governor of Junin from 2011 to 2014 and in 2019 for a seven month period. He is the founder and Secretary General of the Free Peru party which won the plurality of seats in the 2021 Peruvian general election.
Early Life
Cerrón was born in the district of Ahuac, Province of Chupaca in the Department of Junin on December 16, 1970. He is the son of two university professors Jaime Cerrón Palomino y Bertha Rojas López. He received his primary education in at the Sebastián Lorente school in Huancayo and high school in Santa Isabel National College in the same city. He pursued higher education studying Electrical Engineering at National University of the Center of Peru and Civil Engineering at the Los Andes Peruvian University at the same time. This was not concluded however following the killing of his father Jaime Cerrón, then vice-rector for academic affairs at the National University of the Center of Peru, by paramilitary forces in Huancayo. His father's body was found June 8, 1990. Following this, Cerrón ended his studies and moved to Lima to work.
While in Lima Cerrón was able to secure a scholarship to study abroad at the Carlos J. Finlay University of Medical Sciences of Camagüey in Camagüey, Cuba where he studied medicine and obtained a doctorate in medicine in 1997. Following this he continued to work in Camagüey at the Manuel Ascunce Domenech University Hospital. Cerrón would later return to Peru and continued medical studies there obtaining a doctorate in medicine from National University of San Marcos in 2009.