# Edwin Escobar Hill

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Guatemalan entrepreneur, lecturer and politician

This article is about the Guatemalan politician. For the Venezuelan [professional baseball](/source/Professional_baseball), see [Edwin Escobar](/source/Edwin_Escobar).

In this [Spanish name](/source/Spanish_name), the first or paternal [surname](/source/Surname) is *Escobar* and the second or maternal family name is *Hill*.

Edwin Escobar Hill Mayor of Villa Nueva In office 15 January 2012 – 19 March 2019 Deputy Ricardo Ramazzini Gándara María Teresa Gómez López Preceded by Salvador Gándara Gaitán Succeeded by Javier Gramajo Personal details Born Edwin Felipe Escobar Hill (1969-07-19) 19 July 1969 (age 56) Villa Nueva, Guatemala Party Citizen Prosperity (since 2018) Other political affiliations CREO (2011–2012) PP (2012–2015) LIDER (2015–2016) Independent (2016–2018) Spouse Ginna López (m. 2018)

**Edwin Felipe Escobar Hill** (born July 19, 1969) is a [Guatemalan](/source/Guatemalans) entrepreneur, [lecturer](/source/Lecturer) and politician who has served as [Mayor of Villa Nueva](/source/Villa_Nueva%2C_Guatemala) since January 15, 2012.[1] He has also served as President of the National Association of Municipalities of the Republic of Guatemala since 2016.[2][3]

Edwin Escobar was Dean of Engineering at Universidad Rafael Landívar from 2002 to 2005.[4] During this time, he built TEC Landívar, which consists of 42 laboratories for students of different engineering studies at [Universidad Rafael Landívar](/source/Universidad_Rafael_Land%C3%ADvar), Guatemala.[5]

From 1996 to 2004, he was board member and director at “Juannio”,[6] an annual charity art auctions event for the Neurological Institute of Guatemala,[7] of which he also was board director from 2002 to 2004.[8]

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.[9]

In 2018, he announced that he would participate as a presidential candidate in the [2019 general election](/source/2019_Guatemalan_general_election) for [Citizen Prosperity](/source/Citizen_Prosperity).[10] On March 24, 2019, it was announced that Edwin Escobar would be officially running for President of Guatemala.[11]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Municipalidad de Villa Nueva - Somos Gente de Trabajo"](https://www.villanueva.gob.gt/alcalde-municipal-edwin-escobar).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Anam | Asociación Nacional de Municipalidades de la Républica de Guatemala"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160710062505/http://anam.org.gt/site). *anam.org.gt*. Archived from [the original](http://anam.org.gt/site/) on 2016-07-10.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Edwin Escobar es reelecto como presidente de la Anam – Prensa Libre"](https://www.prensalibre.com/guatemala/politica/alcaldes-eligen-al-nuevo-presidente-de-la-anam/).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [https://www.facebook.com/notes/edwin-escobar/tec-land%C3%ADvar-a-la-altura-de-los-mejores-del-mundo/479864993271/](https://www.facebook.com/notes/edwin-escobar/tec-land%C3%ADvar-a-la-altura-de-los-mejores-del-mundo/479864993271/) [*[user-generated source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources#User-generated_content)*]

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["TEC Landívar – Universidad Rafael Landívar"](http://principal.url.edu.gt/index.php/academia/tec-landivar).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Home"](http://www.juannio.com/). *juannio.com*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Home"](http://www.institutoneurologicodeguatemala.org/). *institutoneurologicodeguatemala.org*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Municipalidad de Villa Nueva - Somos Gente de Trabajo"](https://www.villanueva.gob.gt/alcalde-municipal-edwin-escobar).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["Municipalidad de Villa Nueva - Somos Gente de Trabajo"](https://www.villanueva.gob.gt/alcalde-municipal-edwin-escobar).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["Edwin Escobar confirma que será candidato a presidente"](https://www.soy502.com/articulo/edwin-escobar-confirma-sera-candidato-presidente-5313). *SOY502* (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2018.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** ["Edwin Escobar ha sido inscrito como candidato presidencial"](https://www.publinews.gt/gt/noticias/2019/03/24/edwin-escobar-inscrito-candidato-presidente.html). 24 March 2019.

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