Francisco Tudela

Francisco Antonio Gregorio Tudela van Breugel-Douglas (born 20 July 1955)[1] is a Peruvian former Fujimorist politician and diplomat who briefly served as the First Vice President of Peru between July 28, 2000 to November 21, 2000 during the brief third term of Alberto Fujimori and as a Congressman representing Lima between 2000 and 2001. He also served as Foreign Minister during the Fujimori administration.

Francisco Tudela
First Vice President of Peru
In office
28 July 2000 – 21 November 2000
PresidentAlberto Fujimori
Preceded byRicardo Márquez Flores
Succeeded byVacant
(Raúl Diez Canseco elected in 2001)
Minister of Foreign Relations
In office
28 July 1995 – 1 July 1997
PresidentAlberto Fujimori
Preceded byEfraín Goldenberg
Succeeded byEduardo Ferrero Costa
President of Congress
Acting
In office
30 November 2000 – 5 December 2000
Preceded byLuz Salgado (Acting)
Succeeded byCarlos Ferrero Costa
Member of Congress
In office
26 July 2000 – 26 July 2001
ConstituencyLima
Member of the Democratic Constituent Congress
In office
26 November 1992 – 26 July 1995
ConstituencyNational
Permanent Representative of Peru to the United Nations
In office
1 March 1999 – 1 March 2000
PresidentAlberto Fujimori
Preceded byFernando Guillén Salas
Succeeded byJorge Luis Valdez Carrillo
Personal details
Born (1955-07-20) 20 July 1955
Lima, Peru
Political partyNational Renewal
Other political
affiliations		Cambio 90 (non-affiliated)
Peru 2000
Spouse(s)Lucila Gutiérrez Murguia
ChildrenAdriana Tudela
Felipe Tudela
ProfessionDiplomat

Biography

The first of three children, Tudela was born in Lima into an upper-class family. His father, Felipe Tudela y Barreda, served as ambassador and his grandfather was a Prime Minister. His mother was jonkvrouw Vera van Breugel Douglas (1929–†), daughter of the baron Casper van Breugel Douglas (1896–1982, member of the Dutch nobility), first Netherlands Ambassador accredited to the Soviet Union.

Tudela has Romanian roots on his maternal side.[2] He studied at Colegio Maristas San Isidro. He graduated as a lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He has also studied at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain) and London School of Economics and Political Science graduating with LLM.[1]

Tudela was director of the Universidad Católica's Institute of International Studies (IDEI). Francisco Tudela was a member of the Democratic Constituent Congress between 1992 and 1995 under Rafael Rey’s National Renewal and was one of the foreign ministers of the Alberto Fujimori administration, serving from 1995 until mid-1997. In the 2000 general election, he was elected as First Vice President of Peru in the ticket of Alberto Fujimori who triumphed in his second re-election amid public discontent,[3] he served as First Vice President of Peru from July 28, 2000 until resigning from the post in October of that year.[4]

Tudela was held hostage for 126 days during the 1996–97 Japanese embassy hostage crisis.[5]

References
  1. "FRANCISCO ANTONIO GREGORIO TUDELA VAN BREUGEL-DOUGLAS" (pdf) (in Spanish). Congreso de la República del Perú (Congress of the Republic of Peru). Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  2. "Francisco Tudela: "La estrategia del presidente Humala es el suspenso"". El Comercio (in Spanish). 5 September 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  3. "Presidentes y vicepresidentes desde 1980 en Perú, crisis y realidades". 26 July 2018.
  4. Jude Webber (24 October 2000). "Fujimori's deputy quits in row over amnesty". The Independent. London. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  5. Diana Jean Schemo (26 April 1997). "How Peruvian Hostage Crisis Became Trip Into the Surreal". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 September 2012.


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