Valentin+Paniagua

Valentin Paniagua was born on September 23, 1936 and died October 16, 2006. His father was born in Bolivia but lived most of his life in Peru. Valentin was born in Cuzco. He specialized in constitutional law after college. Then, he worked as a lawyer and started a political career. He was elected to congress, and began working towards the ousting of Albert Fujimora - a corrupt Peruvian politician. Paniagua is most famous for becoming the interim President of Peru from November 2000 to July 2001after the removal of Fujimora from office. In his short time in office, Paniagua repealed anti-terrorist legislation passed by Fujimora and oversaw the election of the next president. In 2006, he joined the presidential race and earned less than 6% of the votes.