{{Short description|Peruvian Prime Minister (1950–2021)}} {{family name hatnote|Salas-Guevara|Schultz|lang=Spanish}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Federico Salas | image = | office1 = [[List of Prime Ministers of Peru|Prime Minister of Peru]] | president1 = [[Alberto Fujimori]] | deputy1 = | term_start1 = 28 July 2000 | term_end1 = 21 November 2000 | predecessor1 = [[Alberto Bustamante Belaunde]] | successor1 = [[Javier Pérez de Cuéllar]] | office2 = [[List of regional governors of Huancavelica|Governor of Huancavelica Region]] | deputy2 = | term_start2 = 1 January 2007 | term_end2 = 31 December 2010 | predecessor2 = Salvador Espinoza Huarocc | successor2 = Maciste Díaz Abad | birth_name = Luis Federico Salas Guevara Schultz | birth_date = {{birth date|1950|9|4|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Lima]], [[Peru]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2021|04|28|1950|9|4}} | death_place = [[Huancavelica]], Peru | spouse = Rosario Serpa | party = [[Independent politician|Independent]]<br/>[[Avancemos]] (2000) | alma_mater = Peruvian Institute of Business Administration }} '''Luis Federico Salas-Guevara Schultz''' (4 September 1950 &ndash; 28 April 2021) was a [[Peru]]vian [[politician]]. He was the 49th [[List of Prime Ministers of Peru|Prime Minister of Peru]] in 2000, being the final prime minister of [[President of Peru|President]] [[Alberto Fujimori]]'s decade-long rule.<ref name="Cormier">Cormier, Bill (2000) "[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4QsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AUgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6781,3537502&dq=federico+salas+peru&hl=en Accusations fly in Peru after protests]", ''[[The Daily News (Kentucky)|Daily News]]'', July 29, 2000, p. 8A, retrieved 2011-06-27</ref>

== Biography == Federico Salas was born in [[Lima]] on September 4, 1950, son of Federico Salas Guevara Alarco and Edith Schultz Macchiavello.

His childhood was spent in Huancavelica and later he traveled to Lima, doing his primary studies at the Inmaculado Corazón de María de Miraflores School and secondary studies at the Santa María Marianistas School.

He married in the first nuptials with Lyriam Succar, with whom he had 4 children, and in the second nuptials with Rosario Serpa Masías with whom he had a daughter.

After the death of his brother, he assumed the management of his assets until in 1973 his family's lands were expropriated by the military government during the implementation of the agrarian reform.

He returned to Lima to study administration at the [[Peruvian Institute of Business Administration]] (IPAE) and marketing at ESAN.

In 1993 he created the Center for Research, Promotion and Development in support of Huancavelica.

He ran for President of Peru in the [[2000 Peruvian general election|2000 elections]] under the [[Avancemos]] ticket but lost to President [[Alberto Fujimori]]. In an effort to reconcile with the opposition, President Alberto Fujimori, appointed Salas as Prime Minister. He served between 28 July to 21 November 2000 when Fujimori was ousted from power.

He was Mayor of [[Huancavelica]],<ref name="Smith">Smith, William C. (2009) ''Latin American Democratic Transformations: Institutions, Actors, Processes'', Wiley-Blackwell, {{ISBN|978-1-4051-9758-8}}, p. 346</ref> and then Governor of [[Department of Huancavelica|Huancavelica Region]] from January 1, 2007, until December 31, 2010.<ref>[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Peru_reg.html World Statesmen - Regions of Peru.] Retrieved 11 February 2012.</ref>

Salas died on 28 April 2021, from [[COVID-19]], at age 70.<ref>[https://elcomercio.pe/politica/actualidad/fallecio-el-ex-primer-ministro-federico-salas-guevara-a-los-70-anos-alberto-fujimori-nndc-noticia/ Falleció el ex primer ministro Federico Salas-Guevara] {{in lang|es}}</ref>

== Controversies == In 2005, the Supreme Court sentenced him to 3 years in suspended prison, to the payment of a reparation of three million soles, and a two-year disqualification, for the crimes of ideological falsehood, illicit association to commit a crime and embezzlement. According to Ideele Radio, the former prime minister was prosecuted for having signed an Emergency Decree that expanded the Ministry of Defense's specifications by 69 million soles to allegedly implement a military plan against the Colombian FARC, which was never carried out.

In 2014, the Special Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court determined that [[Carlos Boloña]], Bergamino and Salas endorsed the delivery of US$15 million to Vladimiro Montesinos as "compensation" for his ten years of service in the Fujimori regime. For this they were sentenced to four years in suspended prison.<ref>{{Cite news|last=PERÚ|first=NOTICIAS EL COMERCIO|date=2014-11-27|title=Hoy rematan casa de ex ministro fujimorista Federico Salas {{!}} POLITICA|url=https://elcomercio.pe/politica/justicia/hoy-rematan-casa-ex-ministro-fujimorista-federico-salas-381847-noticia/|access-date=2021-05-14|newspaper=El Comercio|language=es}}</ref>

==See also== * [[Huancavelica Region]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070812135442/http://www.caretas.com.pe/1999/1568/salas/salas.htm Caretas 1568] (Spanish) * {{YouTube|94IM6kXU3iE|Interview Canal N}} (Spanish)

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