BIOS FOR NEW JUSTICE, LABOR, EDUCATION, HEALTH,

UNCLAS LIMA 003397

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE
SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PINR PE
SUBJECT: BIOS FOR NEW JUSTICE, LABOR, EDUCATION, HEALTH,
AND WOMEN'S AFFAIRS AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT MINISTRIES

REF: A. LIMA 3137


B. LIMA 3102

C. LIMA 3013



1. (U) Biographic information for President Garcia's Ministers of
Justice, Labor, Education, Health, and Women's Affairs and Social
Development follows below. As noted in reftels the appointments
represent a multi-party cabinet with a mix of APRA party loyalists and
technical personnel. These ministers were sworn into office on July 28

2006. See reftels for biographic information on the other cabinet
members.

Justice - Maria Zavala
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2. (U) The new Minister of Justice is Maria Amabilia ZAVALA Valladares.

She has 25 years experience working in Peru's judicial system, most
recently as the Chief Justice of Lima Superior Court since January

2005. Prior to that she served as President of the Special
Anticorruption Court of the Lima Superior Court. Zavala received her
law degree from the prestigious San Marcos National University. She is
an associate professor of Criminal Law at the Academy of Magistrates;
and an associate professor of Criminal Law at Iquitos University. She
was born in Talara, Piura on January 15, 1956.


3. (U) Zavala's other judicial appointments (in Lima, Loreto
Department, and Maynas District courts) included: President of the
Superior Court of Loreto; President of the District Commission for
Control of the Magistrature; President of the First and Second Corporat
Criminal Courts for Ordinary Processes for Defendants in Jail; Presiden
of the Ninth and Tenth Criminal Courts in Lima; Judge for the First
Court in Maynas Province (Loreto); and Provisional Judge for Criminal
Cases for Maynas Province. Zavala also held several prosecutor
positions (in Lima and Amazonas department) before becoming a judge.
These included: Provisional Chief Prosecutor for the Superior Court of
Loreto; Assistant Provisional Prosecutor for the Maynas Prosecutor's
Office and the Upper Amazonas Prosecutor's Office; Assistant Prosecutor
for the 21st Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Lima; and Provisional
Prosecutor and Assistant Prosecutor for the Upper Amazonas (Yurimaguas)


4. (SBU) Zavala was a valuable counterpart to USAID in the successful
establishment of commercial courts, a mechanism crucial to PTPA
implementation. In the sluggish environment for judicial reform during
the last years of the Toledo Administration, she stood out for her
integrity and effectiveness. Since her appointment she identified
judicial reform as a priority and indicated that she would use her
contacts at the Superior Court level to promote judicial modernization,
anti-corruption, transparency, and other recommendations from the
Special Commission for Integrated Reform of Justice Administration
(CERIAJUS). Zavala has also called for the reform of unsafe,
corruption-laden prisons and seeks to expedite extraditions.

Minister of Labor - Susana Pinilla
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5. (U) Susana Isabel PINILLA Cisneros is the new Labor Minister. She
is the founder and Executive President of the Institute of Informal
Sector Development and the microfinance provider, EPDYME Proempresa,
both of which have partnered with USAID. She is an experienced
development practitioner, and has written numerous articles on the
informal economic sector and development of women's entrepreneurship.


6. (U) Pinilla earned a degree in anthropology from the University of
San Marcos. Graduate studies included business administration and
organization at the Lima Superior School for Business Administration
(ESAN),a course in microfinance financial management tools at the
Economics Institute of the University of Boulder (1997-98),and a
Masters in Governance from Lima's San Martin de Porres University.
Pinilla ranked first in her Masters class. Her thesis was entitled:
"The Transoceanic Highway and the Generation of New Markets for the
Development of Micro and Small Rural and Urban Enterprises of the
Southern Departments of Peru."

She is currently working on her Doctorate in Government and Public
Policy at San Martin de Porres University. From 1995-98 she was active
in developing the International Network of Alternative Financial
Institutions (INAFI) and the Agency for Finances and Integration of
Women (AFIM). She remains on the board of directors of both
organizations. She has worked as a consultant for UNICEF, the
International Labor Organization, and the Holland Agency for

Development.


7. (U) Pinilla was connected to the first Garcia Administration,
providing assistance to regional informal sector development institutes
and coordinating special rural and infrastructur assistance projects
through the National System for Popular Cooperation (COOPOP). She is
married to Javier Tantalean Arbulu, a high-ranking APRA party official.
Pinilla was born in Lima on May 31, 1954. She speaks Spanish, English
French, and Italian comfortably and has a basic knowledge of Portuguese
and Quechua.

Education - Jose Chang
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8. (U) Jose Antonio CHANG Escobedo is the new Minister of Education.
He was President of the University of San Martin de Porres in Lima from
1996-2006. Chang studied industrial engineering at the Catholic
University and the Federico Villarreal National University. He
received a Masters in Education from the University of Hartford
(Connecticut) and also studied business administration and organization
at Lima Superior School for Business Administration (ESAN) and busines
process re-engineering at IBM in Peru.


9. (U) Chang's non-academic positions have included Central Manager for
Computer Technologies for the National Bank, National Secretary for
Computer Technologies in the Office of the President of the Republic,
Director of the Peruvian Corporation for Airports and Commercial
Aviation (CORPAC),and Dean of Computer and Systems Engineering for the
University of San Martin de Porres. He was born in Lima October 19,

1958. Chang is the son of the late APRA senator Jose Chang Rodriguez.

Health - Carlos Vallejos
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10. (U) Dr. Carlos Santiago VALLEJOS Sologuren, the new Minister of
Health, is a surgeon specializing in oncology. From February 2002
until his appointment, he was Director General of Peru's Specialized
Institute of Neoplastic Disease (INEN),the country's major cancer
treatment center. He led an effort there to decentralize oncological
services by creating Oncology Departments in Lima and provincial
hospitals. He has served as the Director of Oncosalud (a private firm
specializing in cancer treatment.) Vallejos began his studies at the
San Fernando College of Medicine at the University of San Marcos and
transferred to the University of Cayetano Heredia (UPCH),where he
graduated as a medical surgeon in 1966 and where he returned in 1987 fo
his doctorate. He was a resident at the Archbishop Loyaza Hospital and
the Children's Hospital (1966-67) and an oncological medical resident a
the INEN (1967-69). Vallejos continued his training at the Sinai
Hospital in Baltimore and as a project researcher at the M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.


11. (U) Vallejos has been involved in domestic and international cancer
research and treatment. From 1974-77 he was a principal investigator
with the Southwest Oncological Group (SWOG). From 1977-84 he was a
consulting professor on oncological medicine at the Lima Military
Hospital. In 1987 he was the principal professor of medicine at the
UPCH. He served as Vice President (1990-1991) and President (1992-93)
of the Peruvian Society for Cancer Studies. Later he founded and became
President of the Peruvian Society for Oncological Medicine. He was
named an Associate (1997) and a Member (2005) of the National Academy o
Medicine. He is currently the regional representative European Society
of Medical Oncology (ESMO) and is a member of the editorial committee
for the journal, Annals of Oncology (2005- present). He is a member
of: the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO),the American
Association for Cancer Research (AACR),the New York Academy of
Sciences, the Bolivian Society for the Study of Cancer, the American
Society of Hematology, and is a fellow of the American College of
Physicians (ACP). During the first Garcia Administration he was
Secretary General of the Health Ministry (1988-89) and president of the

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Hospital Rehabilitation Project (PERDHA). He was born in Lima February
1, 1942.


12. (SBU) Some critics have expressed concern that Vallejos experience
is biased toward advanced private-sector care and that he lacks
experience dealing with Peru's fundamental public health issues, such a
quality and accessibility of basic primary care, nutrition, water and
sanitation, and control of infectious diseases.

Women's Affairs and Social Development - Virgina Borra
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13. (U) Virginia BORRA Toledo de Jimenez is the new Minister of Women's
Affairs and Social Development. She is a long-time advocate of social

programs for women and children. During the first Garcia
Administration she worked as Executive Director for the Direct
Assistance Program (PAD) under the Presidency of the Council of
Ministers. Subsequently she worked as manager of the Makimama civil
association, President of the board of the educational Association Nuev
Amuta, Executive Director of the "Work and Family" Institute, and leade
in the Mothers' Clubs of Lima. She organized four regional events for
NDI on governability. Borra is a close friend of Pilar Nores de Garcma
the First Lady. They have worked together on various social programs
including the Foundation for the Children of Peru during Garcia's first
administration. Borra studied both economics and education at the San
Marco National University and did postgraduate work there in education,
social administration and management. She ran unsuccessfully for
Congress on the APRA ticket in 2001. She was born in Lima on January 12

1946.

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