Otto Pérez Molina
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General of Division Otto Pérez Molina |
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| 36th President of Guatemala | |
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In office 14 January 2012 – 3 September 2015 |
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| Vice President |
Roxana Baldetti (2012–15) Alejandro Maldonado (2015) |
| Preceded by | Álvaro Colom |
| Succeeded by | Alejandro Maldonado (acting) |
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| Born |
Otto Fernando Pérez Molina 1 December 1950 Guatemala City, Guatemala |
| Political party | Patriotic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Rosa Leal |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater |
School of the Americas Inter-American Defense College |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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| Allegiance |
 Guatemala
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| Service/branch | Guatemalan Army |
| Years of service | 1966–2000 |
| Rank | Brigade general |
Otto Fernando Pérez Molina (born 1 December 1950) is a Guatemalan politician and retired military officer, who was President of Guatemala from 2012 to 2015. Standing as the Patriotic Party (Partido Patriota) candidate, he lost the 2007 presidential election but prevailed in the 2011 presidential election. During the 1990s, before entering politics, he served as Director of Military Intelligence, Presidential Chief of Staff under President Ramiro de León Carpio, and as chief representative of the military for the Guatemalan Peace Accords. On being elected President, he called for the legalization of drugs.
On 2 September 2015, beset by corruption allegations and having been stripped of his immunity by Congress the day earlier, Pérez presented his resignation. He was arrested on 3 September 2015.
Pérez is a graduate of Guatemala's National Military Academy (Escuela Politécnica), the School of the Americas and of the Inter-American Defense College.
He has served as Guatemala's Director of Military Intelligence and as inspector-general of the army. In 1983 he was a member of the group of army officers who backed Defence Minister Óscar Mejía's coup d'état against de facto president Efraín Ríos Montt.
While serving as chief of military intelligence in 1993, he was instrumental in forcing the departure of President Jorge Serrano. The president had attempted a "self-coup" by dissolving Congress and appointing new members to the Supreme Court (Corte Suprema de Justicia). (See 1993 Guatemalan constitutional crisis.)
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