Residence Guatemala Citizenship Guatemalan Name Ricardo Rosales | Nationality Guatemalan Occupation Newspaper columnist | |
Full Name Ricardo Rosales Roman Born February 14, 1934 Guatemala City, Guatemala Education Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala Alma mater Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala | ||
Ricardo Rosales Roman (born February 14, 1934) was the head of the Guatemalan Party of Labour (PGT) beginning in 1974 through 1998. His nom de guerre was Carlos Gonzalez. Rosales joined the leadership of the URNG in 1986. The PGT disbanded in 1998 after the conclusion of the country's civil war.
Rosales was born in Guatemala City. He was elected to several leadership posts of student organizations while studying at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He joined the PGT in September 1963.
He is a signatory of the 1996 Peace Accords.
He was elected as a member of the Congress of Guatemala on the URNG ticket from 2000 to 2004. As of 2009, he was a columnist for the Guatemalan daily newspaper La Hora.
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