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Pedro Castillo was born on October 19, 1969 in the District of Tacabamba, in the Chota
province, Cajamarca region.
His parents are Ireño Castillo Núñez and Mavila Terrones Guevara and he is the third of nine
children.
He studied primary school at Rural School No. 10465 in Puña and at school No. 10475 in the
Chugur hamlet in the province of Chota. He completed his secondary school at the Arturo
Osores Cabrera School. He trained as a teacher studying primary education at the Octavio
Mata Contreras Higher Pedagogical Institute. He then graduated from César Vallejo
University, where he also obtained a master's degree in educational psychology. Since 1995,
he has been a primary school teacher at the Primary Educational Institution No. 10465, in
Puña, Tacabamba.
In 1999 he married professor Lilia Ulcida Paredes Navarro, with whom he had three
children: Alondra, Jennifer and Arnold.
Leader of the Organization of peasant rounds and district, provincial, regional and
national leader of the Peruvian teachers for more than two decades in Puña.
He was president of the Struggle Committee of the regional bases of the Single
Union of Education Workers of Peru (SUTEP). He also served as general secretary
of the National Federation of Workers in Education of Peru (FENATEP)
In 2002, he ran for mayor of Anguía for the Peru Possibly party founded by former
president Alejandro Toledo, although he did not change being elected. Between
2005 and 2017, he was a member of the party's Cajamarca committee.
Participated in the 2017 teachers' strike against the administration of Pedro Pablo
Kuczynsk, demanding an increase in teachers' salaries, the repeal of the Law on the
Public Teaching Career and an increase in the budget in the education sector,
among others.
In 2020, he presented his candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic in the
general elections of Peru in 2021 for the Free Peru party. During the campaign,
Castillo insistently raised the need to change the Political Constitution of Peru and
the call for a Constituent Assembly.
On April 11, 2021, in the first round, Castillo obtained 19% of the votes, placing
herself in the first place of the candidates to face former congresswoman Keiko
Fujimori in the second round.
Pedro Castillo was proclaimed president-elect of Peru, on July 19, 2021,