Roxana Baldetti
| Roxana Baldetti | |
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| 13th Vice President of Guatemala | |
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In office January 14, 2012 – May 9, 2015 |
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| President | Otto Pérez Molina |
| Preceded by | Rafael Espada |
| Succeeded by | Alejandro Maldonado |
| Deputy by National List of the Congress of Guatemala | |
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In office January 14, 2008 – March 14, 2011 |
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| 2nd General Secretary of the Patriotic Party | |
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In office January 20, 2009 – September 14, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Otto Pérez Molina |
| Succeeded by | Valentín Gramajo |
| Personal details | |
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Ingrid Roxana Baldetti Elías May 13, 1962 Guatemala City,  Guatemala
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| Nationality | Guatemalan |
| Political party | Patriotic Party |
| Spouse(s) | Mariano Paz |
| Children | Luis Pedro Paz Baldetti Mario Paz Baldetti |
| Residence | Guatemala City |
| Alma mater | Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Website | http://www.partidopatriota.com |
Ingrid Roxana Baldetti Elías (born May 13, 1962) was the first female Vice President of Guatemala from 2012 until her resignation amid a corruption scandal in 2015.
Baldetti was born in Guatemala City. She comes from a conservative, Catholic family. Her parents were Alejandro Baldetti and Gladys Elías de Baldetti. She attended primary school in the Colegio Monte Carmelo, graduating as a primary education teacher in El Sagrado Corazón de Jesús at the Historic Center of Guatemala. She obtained a bachelor's degree in Journalism at the University of San Carlos of Guatemala.
Previously an elementary school substitute teacher, Baldetti started in journalism on the television news program Aquí el Mundo. She was co-founder of the news program TV Noticias. She worked at Univisión as a correspondent from Guatemala for the show Primer Impacto.
She worked in favor of women for the United Nations at a national level, including conferences within the Republic in partnership with Kellogg's Central America. She was founder of a beauty products company, also she founded a spa and hair salon chain.
In the 1990s, she was designated as the Subsecretary of Public Relations for the Presidency of the Republic. In 2001, she helped found the Patriot Party alongside Otto Pérez Molina. She was elected to Congress in 2004, she held the position of national-list congressiona deputy for the Patriot Party. However, she presented her resignation to the Congress president before August 15, 2011, as she was going to participate as the vice presidential candidate for the same party, as Pérez Molina's running-mate. and she announced the elections day that she will retake her position as deputy. She has been the General Secretary of the Patriotic Party since 2009.
In 2013, Guatemalan newspaper El Periódico published details of Baldetti's purchases of multimillion-dollar homes and other luxury goods with unexplained wealth. Baldetti owns five properties and a helicopter worth over US$13 million, which could not be accounted for by her or her husband's income.
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