Carlos Soto Menegazzo

Carlos Enrique Soto Menegazzo (born August 26, 1951) is a Guatemalan cardiologist and politician. He served as Guatemala's Minister of Public Health and Social Assistance from 2017 to 2020.[1][2]

Carlos Soto Menegazzo
Minister of Public Health and Social Assistance
In office
August 29, 2017 – January 14, 2020
PresidentJimmy Morales
Preceded byLucrecia Hernández Mack
Succeeded byHugo Monroy
Personal details
Born (1951-08-26) August 26, 1951
Guatemala City
Alma materUniversidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Occupationdoctor

Career

On August 29, 2017 he was appointed to replace Lucrecia Hernández Mack as Minister of Public Health.[2] Hernández had announced her resignation the sunday before, in protest over President Jimmy Morales ordering the expulsion of United Nations anti-corruption investigator Iván Velásquez Gómez.[3]

Since February 2014, he had served as director of Roosevelt Hospital until that day.[4]

Personal life

He is son of Carlos Armando Soto Gómez y Odilia Perina Menegazzo Vanfrette, his father was Minister of Health too from 1986 to 1990 and deputy of the Guatemalan National Constituent assembly of 1984.[5]

He married whit Beatriz Díaz in 1969 and they divorced in 1989. He married for the second time with Lucrecia Torcelli in 1989.[5]

References
  1. "Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Guatemala". Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on October 5, 2013. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
  2. Ramos, Saira (2017-08-29). "Carlos Soto, exdirector del hospital Roosevelt, es el nuevo ministro de Salud". Publinews (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  3. Guatemela, elPeriodico de (2017-08-27). "Urgente: Ministra y viceministros de Salud Pública presentan renuncia al presidente Jimmy Morales". elPeriodico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  4. "Carlos Soto es nombrado nuevo Ministro de Salud". Chapin TV (in Spanish). 2017-08-29. Retrieved 2023-03-29.
  5. "Entrega de la Orden del Quetzal al médico Carlos Soto Gómez". Twitter (in Spanish). 2019-11-21. Retrieved 2023-03-29.


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