Hugo Rodríguez Chinchilla

Hugo Otoniel Rodríguez Chinchilla (5 October 1975 – 5 April 2023) was a Guatemalan politician who served as a deputy of the Congress of Guatemala for the Central District from January 2020 until his death in April 2023. Rodríguez was a member of the political party Commitment, Renewal and Order (CREO).

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rodríguez and the second or maternal family name is Chinchilla.
Hugo Rodríguez Chinchilla
Official portrait
Member of the Congress of Guatemala
In office
14 January 2020 – 5 April 2023
Succeeded byYesmín María Poroj Orellana
Personal details
Born
Hugo Otoniel Rodríguez Chinchilla

(1975-10-05)5 October 1975
Guatemala
Died5 April 2023(2023-04-05) (aged 47)
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Political partyCommitment, Renewal and Order

Early life

Rodríguez was born on 5 October 1975.[1]

Political career

In the 2015 municipal elections, Rodríguez was elected as fifth councilor of the Municipality of Chinautla, Guatemala Department, for the Patriotic Party (PP), from 2016 to 2020.[2]

Rodríguez ranked second in the list of candidates for deputies for the Central District of the Commitment, Renewal and Order (CREO) party in the 2019 legislative elections.[3] He was elected as a deputy and took office on 14 January 2020 as part of the IX Legislature of Congress.[3] As a member of Congress, Rodríguez was a member of several high-level parliamentary commissions such as Communications, Transportation and Public Works, National Defense, Labor, and the Interior, among others. At the time of his death, he was chairman of the Communications, Transportation and Public Works Commission.[1] He was also a speaker for various bills, the most relevant of which was one that sought to compensate each military veteran who served during the Guatemalan Civil War.[4]

At the beginning of 2023, it was announced that Rodríguez would seek re-election as deputy for the same district, occupying the first position on the CREO list for the 2023 general elections.[4]

Death

Rodríguez died on 5 April 2023, in Guatemala City due to consequences related to pneumonia.[4] It was known that he had been affected by pneumonia several days before and for this reason he was admitted to a care center.[5] The said disease had caused damage to his lung, his state of health worsened and caused him two heart attacks.[4]

His fellow bench members, as well as other deputies and the president of Congress Shirley Rivera expressed their condolences through social networks.[3] Rodríguez was the fourth deputy to die in office in the IX Legislature, as well as the second CREO deputy to die in office during said legislature (the first was Adela de Torrebiarte in 2020).

References
  1. "Diputados / Hugo Otoniel Rodríguez Chinchilla". Congreso de la República (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  2. "Memorias Electorales 2015" (PDF). Tribunal Supremo Electoral (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  3. Mutz, Viviana (6 April 2023). "Muere el diputado Hugo Rodríguez, de la bancada Creo, a causa de neumonía". República (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  4. Ortega, Juan Carlos (6 April 2023). "Muere Hugo Rodríguez, diputado de la bancada Creo, luego de sufrir dos infartos producto de una neumonía". Prensa Libre (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 April 2023.
  5. Gramajo, Jessica (6 April 2023). "Muere el diputado Hugo Otoniel Rodríguez Chinchilla". Soy502 (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 April 2023.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.