Guillermo Larco Cox

{{Short description|Peruvian politician}} {{Unreferenced|date=May 2026}} {{family name hatnote|Larco|Cox|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Guillermo Larco Cox | image = | office = [[Prime Minister of Peru]] | president = [[Alan García]] | term_start = 30 September 1989 | term_end = 28 July 1990 | predecessor = [[Luis Alberto Sánchez]] | successor = [[Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller]] | term_start2 = 26 June 1987 | term_end2 = 17 May 1988 | predecessor2 = [[Luis Alva Castro]] | successor2 = [[Armando Villanueva]] | office3 = [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Peru)|Minister of Foreign Relations]] | president3 = [[Alan García]] | term_start3 = 1 March 1989 | term_end3 = 28 July 1990 | predecessor3 = [[Luis Gonzales Posada]] | successor3 = [[Luis Marchand Stens]] | office4 = [[Ministry of the Presidency (Peru)|Minister of the Presidency]] | president4 = [[Alan García]] | term_start4 = 27 June 1987 | term_end4 = 13 May 1988 | predecessor4 = [[Nicanor Mujica Álvarez-Calderón]] | successor4 = [[Armando Villanueva]] | office5 = [[Congress of the Republic of Peru|Member of the Senate]] | term_start5 = 26 July 1985 | term_end5 = 26 July 1990 | office6 = [[Congress of the Republic of Peru|Member of the Chamber of Deputies]] | constituency6 = [[Lima]] | term_start6 = 26 July 1980 | term_end6 = 26 July 1985 | office7 = [[Trujillo, Peru|Mayor of the Province of Trujillo]] | term_start7 = 1 January 1964 | term_end7 = 1 January 1970 | predecessor7 = [[Victor Larco Herrera]] | successor7 = [[Jorge Torres Vallejo]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|2|19|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Trujillo, Peru|Trujillo]], [[La Libertad Region|La Libertad]], Peru | death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|7|12|1932|2|19|df=y}} | death_place = [[Lima]], Peru | party = [[American Popular Revolutionary Alliance|Peruvian Aprista Party]] | spouse = | children = | footnotes = }}

'''Guillermo Larco Cox''' (February 19, 1932 – July 12, 2002), was a [[civil engineer]] and Peruvian politician. Member of the [[American Popular Revolutionary Alliance|Peruvian Aprista Party]], he achieved the position of [[Senate of Peru|Senator]] and [[Prime Minister of Peru|Prime Minister]].

== Early life and career == Guillermo Larco Cox was born in [[Trujillo, Peru|Trujillo]] on February 19, 1932. Son of Victor Larco and Alicia Cox; his siblings were Carolina, Alicia, and Victor Larco Cox. He married Laura Manucci, with whom he had 6 children (Mariana, Laura, Javier, Ricardo (†2011), Guillermo (†2005) and Alicia).

In 1961, was elected President of the 1st Directive Board of the [[Firefighter|Firemen]] department of Trujillo.

== Political career == He joined the [[American Popular Revolutionary Alliance|Peruvian Aprista Party]] in his youth, which led him to become the first democratically elected [[Mayor]] of Trujillo in 1963, serving until 1969. From 1980 to 1985 he was elected to the [[Chamber of Deputies of Peru|Chamber of Deputies]] for the [[Departments of Peru|Department]] of [[La Libertad Region|La Libertad]], and then as a Senator for the term 1985-1990. Elected for the Vice-Presidency of the Senate for the term 1986-1987.

During his term in the Senate, he also had the chance to serve under [[Alan García]]'s first term as Head of the Cabinet, (from June 27, 1987 to May 13, 1988 and from September 30, 1989 to July 28, 1990). Among other positions, Larco was appointed [[Ministry of the Presidency (Peru)|Minister of the Presidency]] and as [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Peru)|Minister of Foreign Relations]].

After [[Alan García]]'s first term ended, Larco briefly retired from politics until the 2000, when he ran for a seat in Congress under the APRA party, but was not elected because he received a minority of votes and subsequently retired from politics until his death on July 12, 2002 in his house in the [[Lima|Limean]] district of [[San Isidro District, Lima|San Isidro]].

== Honours== * [[Order of the Sun (Peru)|The Order of the Sun]]

== See also == * [[Alan García]]

{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | before = [[Luis Alva Castro]] |title=[[Prime Minister of Peru]]| years = 1987–1988 | after = [[Armando Villanueva]]}} {{succession box | before = [[Luis Alberto Sánchez]] |title=[[Prime Minister of Peru]]| years = 1989–1990 | after = [[Juan Carlos Hurtado Miller]]}} {{s-end}}

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