Rafael Roncagliolo
{{Short description|Peruvian politician (1944–2021)}}
{{about|the Peruvian foreign minister|the Peruvian writer Santiago Rafael Roncagliolo Lohmann|Santiago Roncagliolo}}
{{family name hatnote|Roncagliolo|de Orbegoso|lang=Spanish}}
{{Expand Spanish|topic=bio|Rafael Roncagliolo|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Rafael Roncagliolo
| image = Rafael Roncagliolo - World Economic Forum on Latin America 2012.jpg
| office = Minister of Foreign Relations
| president = Ollanta Humala
| term_start = 28 July 2011
| term_end = 14 May 2013
| predecessor = José Antonio García Belaúnde
| successor = Eda Rivas
|birth_name = Fortunato Rafael Roncagliolo de Orbegoso
| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|11|14|df=y}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|5|1|1944|11|14|df=y}}
| death_place = Lima, Peru{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
| party = Independent
}}
Fortunato Rafael Roncagliolo de Orbegoso (14 November 1944 – 1 May 2021{{cite news |title=Falleció el excanciller Rafael Roncagliolo |url=https://elcomercio.pe/politica/fallecio-el-excanciller-rafael-roncagliolo-transparencia-embajador-noticia/ |newspaper=El Comercio |access-date=1 May 2021 |language=es |date=1 May 2021}}) was a Peruvian sociologist, diplomat, and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Ollanta Humala from 28 July 2011{{Citation |url=http://www.rpp.com.pe/2011-07-21-rafael-roncagliolo-destaco-la-anunciada-politica-exterior-de-humala-noticia_386730.html |title=Rafael Roncagliolo destacó la anunciada política exterior de Humala |date=21 July 2011 |accessdate=1 Aug 2011 |language=Spanish |newspaper=RPP Noticias}} until he resigned on 14 May 2013, after the diplomatic crisis with Venezuela and the government of Nicolás Maduro.{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}}He later served as Ambassador to Spain from 2015 to 2016.{{Cite news|last=PERÚ|first=NOTICIAS EL COMERCIO|date=2015-03-28|title=Ex canciller Roncagliolo será nuevo embajador de Perú en España {{!}} POLITICA|url=https://elcomercio.pe/politica/gobierno/ex-canciller-roncagliolo-sera-nuevo-embajador-peru-espana-347107-noticia/|access-date=2021-05-14|newspaper=El Comercio|language=es}} He died on 1 May 2021 from COVID-19.{{Cite web|url=https://rpp.pe/politica/actualidad/allan-wagner-sobre-deceso-de-rafael-roncagliolo-es-una-perdida-inmensa-noticia-1334552|title = Allan Wagner sobre deceso de Rafael Roncagliolo: "Es una pérdida inmensa"|date = May 2021}}
Biography
He was born in Lima on November 14, 1944, he is the son of Nicolás Roncagliolo Aste and Susana de Orbegoso Pimentel (great-granddaughter of Marshal Luis José de Orbegoso, president of Peru). His father, a small landowner from the south, was mayor of Nazca (1945-1947; 1964–1966).
In 1972, he married Catalina Lohmann Luca de Tena, daughter of the historian and diplomat Guillermo Lohmann and granddaughter of Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, Marquis of Luca de Tena. His children are Inés, Tania and the writer Santiago Roncagliolo.
He studied at the Colegio de la Inmaculada and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences (1969) and a degree in sociology (1970). During his stay at said university, he was an instructor of Spanish (1962) and auxiliary professor of sociology (1966) at the Faculty of Letters, and, in addition, president of the Federation of Students (Fepucp) in 1965.
Political career
= Public administration =
Roncagliolo was a keen supporter of the leftist military dictatorship of general Juan Velasco Alvarado and defended its confiscation of the Peruvian newspapers in 1974. Years later, he participated in different entities of the Peruvian public administration: Advisory Councils of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Housing, the National Council of Science and Technology, the National Institute of Culture and the National Institute of Planning .
= Minister of Foreign Affairs =
On July 20, 2011, it was announced that he will be the Foreign Affairs Minister of the new government of Ollanta Humala as of July 28, replacing José Antonio García Belaúnde.{{Cite web|last=Chuquillanqui|first=Fernando|date=2011-07-21|title=Rafael Roncagliolo destacó la anunciada política exterior de Humala|url=https://rpp.pe/politica/actualidad/rafael-roncagliolo-destaco-la-anunciada-politica-exterior-de-humala-noticia-386730|access-date=2021-05-22|website=RPP|language=es}}{{Cite web|date=2011-07-22|title=Nuevo canciller Rafael Roncagliolo: Soy un fanatico de la Concertacion {{!}} LaRepublica.pe|url=http://www.larepublica.pe/21-07-2011/nuevo-canciller-rafael-roncagliolo-soy-un-fanatico-de-la-concertacion|access-date=2021-05-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722020954/http://www.larepublica.pe/21-07-2011/nuevo-canciller-rafael-roncagliolo-soy-un-fanatico-de-la-concertacion|archive-date=2011-07-22}}{{Cite web|last=Chuquillanqui|first=Fernando|date=2011-07-21|title=Conozca a Rafael Roncagliolo, el próximo canciller de la República|url=https://rpp.pe/politica/actualidad/conozca-a-rafael-roncagliolo-el-proximo-canciller-de-la-republica-noticia-386772|access-date=2021-05-22|website=RPP|language=es}}
In the exercise of this position, Roncagliolo proposed to implement an active diplomacy projecting outwards the sum of the different internal sectoral policies and in coherence with a policy of social inclusion, taking into account that Peru is interconnected and inserted in the globalized world where economic and political crises affect all countries.
Personal life
He was the father of the author Santiago Roncagliolo.{{Citation |url=http://www.rpp.com.pe/2011-07-21-conozca-a-rafael-roncagliolo-el-proximo-canciller-de-la-republica-noticia_386772.html |title=Conozca a Rafael Roncagliolo, el próximo canciller de la República |newspaper=RPP Noticias |language=Spanish |date=21 July 2011 |accessdate=5 Aug 2011}}
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