{{Short description|Guatemalan entrepreneur, lecturer and politician}} {{about|the Guatemalan politician|the Venezuelan [[professional baseball]]|Edwin Escobar}} {{family name hatnote|Escobar|Hill|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Edwin Escobar Hill | image = Edwin Escobar con Félix Hernández (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = | order = | office = [[Villa Nueva, Guatemala|Mayor of Villa Nueva]] | term_start = 15 January 2012 | term_end = 19 March 2019 | predecessor = Salvador Gándara Gaitán | successor = Javier Gramajo | deputy = Ricardo Ramazzini Gándara<br />María Teresa Gómez López | birth_name = Edwin Felipe Escobar Hill | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|7|19|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Villa Nueva, Guatemala|Villa Nueva]], [[Guatemala]] | party = [[Citizen Prosperity]] {{small|(since 2018)}} | other_party = [[Commitment, Renewal and Order|CREO]] {{small|(2011–2012)}}<br />[[Patriotic Party (Guatemala)|PP]] {{small|(2012–2015)}}<br />[[Renewed Democratic Liberty|LIDER]] {{small|(2015–2016)}}<br />[[Independent politician|Independent]] {{small|(2016–2018)}} | spouse = Ginna López {{small|(m. 2018)}} | partner = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Edwin Felipe Escobar Hill''' (born July 19, 1969) is a [[Guatemalans|Guatemalan]] entrepreneur, [[lecturer]] and politician who has served as [[Villa Nueva, Guatemala|Mayor of Villa Nueva]] since January 15, 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.villanueva.gob.gt/alcalde-municipal-edwin-escobar|title = Municipalidad de Villa Nueva - Somos Gente de Trabajo}}</ref> He has also served as President of the National Association of Municipalities of the Republic of Guatemala since 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://anam.org.gt/site/ |title=Anam {{!}} Asociación Nacional de Municipalidades de la Républica de Guatemala |website=anam.org.gt |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160710062505/http://anam.org.gt/site |archive-date=2016-07-10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prensalibre.com/guatemala/politica/alcaldes-eligen-al-nuevo-presidente-de-la-anam/|title = Edwin Escobar es reelecto como presidente de la Anam – Prensa Libre}}</ref>
Edwin Escobar was Dean of Engineering at Universidad Rafael Landívar from 2002 to 2005.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/notes/edwin-escobar/tec-land%C3%ADvar-a-la-altura-de-los-mejores-del-mundo/479864993271/ {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref> During this time, he built TEC Landívar, which consists of 42 laboratories for students of different engineering studies at [[Universidad Rafael Landívar]], Guatemala.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://principal.url.edu.gt/index.php/academia/tec-landivar|title = TEC Landívar – Universidad Rafael Landívar}}</ref>
From 1996 to 2004, he was board member and director at “Juannio”,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.juannio.com/ |title=Home |website=juannio.com}}</ref> an annual charity art auctions event for the Neurological Institute of Guatemala,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.institutoneurologicodeguatemala.org/ |title=Home |website=institutoneurologicodeguatemala.org}}</ref> of which he also was board director from 2002 to 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.villanueva.gob.gt/alcalde-municipal-edwin-escobar|title = Municipalidad de Villa Nueva - Somos Gente de Trabajo}}</ref>
From 2008 to 2010, he hosted a TV talk show called "Construyendo Guatemala con Edwin Escobar" (Building Guatemala with Edwin Escobar), which aired on Canal Antigua.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.villanueva.gob.gt/alcalde-municipal-edwin-escobar|title = Municipalidad de Villa Nueva - Somos Gente de Trabajo}}</ref>
In 2018, he announced that he would participate as a presidential candidate in the [[2019 Guatemalan general election|2019 general election]] for [[Citizen Prosperity]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Edwin Escobar confirma que será candidato a presidente|url=https://www.soy502.com/articulo/edwin-escobar-confirma-sera-candidato-presidente-5313|website=SOY502|accessdate=20 July 2018|language=Spanish}}</ref> On March 24, 2019, it was announced that Edwin Escobar would be officially running for President of Guatemala.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.publinews.gt/gt/noticias/2019/03/24/edwin-escobar-inscrito-candidato-presidente.html|title=Edwin Escobar ha sido inscrito como candidato presidencial|date=24 March 2019}}</ref>
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