About Vinicio Cerezo
Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo (born 26 December 1942) is a Guatemalan politician who served as the 40th President of Guatemala from 1986 to 1991. He also served as the Secretary General of the Central American Integration System (SICA) from 2017 to 2021. His tenure as President of Guatemala was characterized by political instability and political corruption. There were two failed coup attempts against Arévalo. == Career == Cerezo was born in Guatemala City, the son of the Supreme Court judge Marco Vinicio Cerezo Sierra, and came from a well-known liberal family. In 1962, he was a member of the student body of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC), which played an important part in the national protests against the government of Miguel Ydígoras. In 1964, he joined the Guatemalan Christian Democrats (DCG), a political party banned from standing in the 1966 elections. He graduated in judicial science from USAC in 1968, the same year the DCG was formally legalized, and was made its secretary in 1970. With a very tense political situaction, Cerezo was forced to hire permanent protection from that time. In February 1981, in the worst of 3 assassination attempts, his vehicle was attacked with hand grenades and machine gun fire in the center of the capital.
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