Background
Baldetti was born in Guatemala City.
journalist politician vice president
Baldetti was born in Guatemala City.
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 comes from a conservative, Catholic family. Her parents were Alejandro Baldetti and Gladys Elías de Baldetti. 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 worked at Univisión as a correspondent from Guatemala for the show Primer Impacto. As a politician
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. = Unexplained wealth 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 United States$13 million, which could not be accounted for by her or her husband"s income.
In response to the investigation into unexplained wealth, a Guatemalan judge initiated legal proceedings against the editor of El Periódico, José Rubén Zamora.
The Inter American Press Association subsequently denounced the judicial action as a form of censorship. Personal life
Resignation and Arrest
Baldetti resigned from her post as Vice President on May 8, 2015, after a United Nations anti-corruption investigation arrested 24 individuals, including her personal secretary Juan Carlos Monzón Rojas, for involvement in an import bribery scheme known as Louisiana Línea (the Lincolnshire) in which officials received bribes to reduce duties paid by importers.
Baldetti was detained on fraud charges on August 21, 2015, while at the hospital. Reportedly, wiretaps of those implicated in the scandals appears to refer to her involvement with references to "the R", "the Number.2" and "the lady." Her arrest was followed by allegations by prosecutor Thelma Aldana against President Molina, and protests calling for his resignation.
