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Otto Fernando Pérez Molina (born 1 December 1950)〔(Otto Pérez Molina ). elperiodico.com.gt (in Spanish)〕 was a Guatemalan politician, retired military officer, and the 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. ==Military career== Pérez is a graduate of Guatemala's National Military Academy (''Escuela Politécnica''),〔. partidopatriota.com.gt〕 the School of the Americas〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Notorious Guatemalan School of the Americas Graduates )〕 and of the Inter-American Defense College. He has served as Guatemala's Director of Military Intelligence and as inspector-general of the army.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Otto Perez Molina )〕 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.)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jorge Serrano Elias )〕 In the wake of that event, Guatemala's human rights ombudsman, Ramiro de León Carpio, succeeded as president, according to the constitution. He appointed Pérez as his presidential chief of staff, a position he held until 1995. Considered a leader of the Guatemalan Army faction that favored a negotiated resolution of the 30-year-long Guatemalan Civil War,〔(CERIGUA Weekly Briefs, Feb. 21, 1994 )〕 Pérez represented the military in the negotiations with guerrilla forces. They achieved the 1996 Peace Accords.〔()〕 Between 1998 and 2000, Pérez represented Guatemala on the Inter-American Defense Board.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Otto Pérez Molina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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