Luis Castañeda Lossio

Óscar Luis Castañeda Lossio (born June 21, 1945) is a Peruvian politician who was Mayor of Lima, Peru, from 2003 to 2010.

Biography

Castañeda, who was born in Chiclayo and lived in the Casa Castañeda, is the son of Carlos Castañeda Iparraguirre and Ida Lossio. His father is remembered as one of the most important mayors of Chiclayo. As a little child he used to inspect with his father the works in progress at the city. From his marriage with Rosario Pardo, he has two sons: Luis Castañeda Pardo and Darío Castañeda Pardo.

He was trained as a lawyer at the Catholic University of Peru, he got a Masters degree at the Centro de Altos Estudios Militares del Perú. In Sweden and Mexico he got a Profesional Diploma in Management. In 1981, he started as a member of Popular Action party, working with many of the former mayors of Lima as Alfonso Barrantes Lingán.

Between 1990-1996, during Fujimori's government, he was the President of the National Institute of Public Health IPPS, now known as ESSALUD. He had also a controversial participacion in La Caja del Pescador, an entity that works in benefit of the fishermen^[1]. In 2000, he ran as a candidate of his own party National Solidarity Party, in the presidential elections, but failed to make it to the run-off elections.^[2][3][4]

In 2002, he participated in the elections for mayor with the National Unity Party, defeating Mayor Alberto Andrade. Castañeda started out as a very popular mayor, with a popularity index close to 79%. He won re-election as the city's mayor in November 2006 with 48% of the vote.

In 2011, SN (lead by Luis Castañeda Lossio) decided to run for presidency. Nevertheless and unsucessfuly, they only managed to gather around 9.5% of the votes.

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