Alfonso Portillo

Alfonso Portillo
Official portrait, 2000
45th President of Guatemala
In office
14 January 2000 – 14 January 2004
Vice PresidentJuan Francisco Reyes López
Preceded byÁlvaro Arzú
Succeeded byÓscar Berger
Personal details
Born (1951-09-24) 24 September 1951 (age 73)
Zacapa, Guatemala
Political partyVision with Values (2022–present)
Other political
affiliations		Guatemalan Christian Democracy (1993–1995)
Guatemalan Republican Front (1995–2004)
Independent (2004–2017)
Todos (2017–2020)
Independent (2020–2022)
Spouses
María Eugenia Padúa González
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(m. 1981; div. 1990)​
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(m. 1995; div. 2005)​
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Portillo and the second or maternal family name is Cabrera.

Alfonso Antonio Portillo Cabrera (born 24 September 1951) is a Guatemalan politician who served as the 45th president of Guatemala from 2000 to 2004.

He took office on 14 January 2000, representing the Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG), the party then led by retired general and deposed military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt (1926–2018). In 2014, ten years after his departure from the presidency, Portillo would plead guilty to corruption charges in a United States court.[1][2]

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