Esperanza Martínez (politician)

Esperanza Martínez (born April 26, 1959) is a paraguayan medical doctor and politician, senator for the left wing alliance Frente Guazu and an active member of the party Participación Ciudadana (PPC). From August 2008 till June 2012 was the Paraguayan Minister of Public Health and Social Welfare under President Fernando Lugo.^[1]

In may 2012 is elected vicepresident for the 65th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization.^[2]

She is an advocate of liberalizing implementation of laws regarding abortion in Paraguay to help a pregnant 10-year-old who was raped by her stepfather, complaining that to those who opposed the treatment, the unnamed girl "became a uterus. She became a birth canal."^[3]

References

↑ CIA World Leaders
↑ Pan American Health Organization
↑ "Paraguay senator says pregnant 10-year-old denied abortion 'became a uterus'". Associated Press. The Guardian. 10 May 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.

Fernando Lugo cabinet (2008–2012)

Vice-President	Federico Franco (2008–2012)

Minister of Education and Culture	Horacio Galeano Perrone (2008-2011) Luis Alberto Riart (2011–2012)

Minister of Agriculture and Livestock	Cándido Vera Bejarano (2008-2011) Enzo Cardozo Jimenez (2011–2012)

Minister of Communications	Augusto Dos Santos

Minister of Emergency Preparedness	Camilo Soares Machado (2008–2012)

Minister of Finance	Dionisio Cornelio Borda

Minister of Foreign Affairs	Alejandro Hamed (2008-2009) Héctor Lacognata (2009-2011) Jorge Lara Castro (2011–2012)

Minister of Industry and Commerce	Martín Heisecke (2008-2011) Francisco Rivas Almada (2011–2012)

Minister of Interior Affairs	Rafael Filizzola (2008– June 2011) Federico Acuña (June 2011 - August 2011) Carlos Filizzola (August 2011 - June 2012)

Minister of Justice and Labor	Blas Llano Humberto Blasco

Minister of National Defense	Luis Bareiro Spaini Catalino Luis Roy Ortiz (2011–2012)

Minister of the Presidency	Miguel López Perito

Minister of Public Health and Social Welfare	Esperanza Martínez

Minister of the Public Works	Efraín Alegre (2008-2010) Cecilio Pérez Bordón (2010–2012)

Minister of Women	Gloria Rubin

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