Verónika Mendoza
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| Born | 9 December 1980 San Sebastián, Peru |
| Political party | Nationalist Party (2008–2012) Popular Action (2012–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Peru Wins (2010–2012) Broad Front (2012–present) |
| Alma mater | Paris Diderot University New Sorbonne University National University of Distance Education |
| Website | Official website |
Verónika Fanny Mendoza Frisch, (Cusco, Peru, 9 December 1980) -also known as Vero Mendoza- is a Peruvian psychologist, educator, and politician. She is a Member of Congress in representation of the Cusco region for the 2011-2016 term.[1]
Personal Background
Verónika Mendoza was born in the San Sebastián district of Cusco Province, in Peru’s southern Andean highlands. She is the daughter of Marcelino Mendoza and Gabrielle Marie Frisch D'Adhemar, a French citizen. Owing to her mother’s nationality, Mendoza is a dual national, holding both Peruvian and French passports.[2]
She studied at the Virgen del Carmen school in the city of Cusco and attended university at Université Paris Diderot, in Paris, France, from which she graduated with a degree in psychology in 2003.[1] She has also receive a Master’s Degree in Social Sciences from the New Sorbonne University in 2006, and a Master’s Degree in Education, with an emphasis on the Spanish language, from Madrid’s Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, in 2009.[1]
Mendoza worked as a Spanish language instructor at the Centre Acadomia Prépa Paris. Later, she was employed as an instructor at the Asociación Pukllasunchis in Cusco, and as a professor at the Universidad Nacional del Altiplano in Puno.[1]
Political Life
While in Europe, Mendoza worked as coordinator for support committees abroad for Peruvian Nationalist Party. Back in Peru, she was named the party youth’s press secretary in 2009, and as spokesperson for the party’s women’s commission the following year.[1][3]
In the 2011 Peruvian general elections she ran for Congress, in representation of Cusco, on the Gana Perú coalition’s ticket. She was elected to the office with 47,088 votes from 28 July 2011. Her term expires in July of 2016.
In 2011, she was named Vice President of the Peruvian Congress’ Committee for Culture and Cultural Heritage. She is also a member of the Congressional Commission on Andean, Amazonian, and Afro-Peruvian Peoples, the Environment, and Ecology, and of the Group for Campaign in Defense of Water and Territory. She has also served the head of the Cusco Congressional delegation.[4] Mendoza resigned from the Gana Perú Congressional delegation on 4 June 2012, following violent repression of protesters and strikers in Espinar Province.[3] Shortly thereafter she joined the Popular Action – Broad Front delegation.
Presidential Candidacy
In the 2016 general elections Mendoza is the Broad Front (Frente Amplio) candidate for President of the Republic after winning the party’s primary election in October 2015.
References
- ^ a b c d e Declaración Jurada de Vida del Candidato, curriculum vitae presented to the Peruvian national electoral authority (2016) (Accessed 19 March 2016).
- ^ Verónika Mendoza: “De ninguna manera renunciaré a mi pasaporte francés” (Accessed 19 March 2016)
- ^ a b Vero (9 September 2014), at veromendoza.pe (Accessed 19 March 2016).
- ^ Verónika Fanny Mendoza Frisch, at Peruvian Congress web portal (Accessed 19 March 2016)
