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Education National University of Distance Education, Paris Diderot University, University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle Parents Gabrielle Marie Frisch D'Adhemar, Marcelino Mendoza Similar Keiko Fujimori, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Alfredo Barnechea, Julio Guzmán, Alberto Fujimori Profiles | ||
Verónika Fanny Mendoza Frisch (born 9 December 1980), popularly known as Vero Mendoza, is a Peruvian psychologist, educator, and politician. She was a Member of Congress representing the Cusco region from July 2011 until July 2016. She was the candidate of the Broad Front in the 2016 presidential election.
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Early life, education, career
Verónika Mendoza was born on 9 December 1980 in the San Sebastián district of Cusco Province, in Peru’s southern Andean highlands. She is the daughter of Marcelino Mendoza and Gabrielle Marie Frisch D'Adhemar, a French citizen. Owing to her mother’s nationality, Mendoza holds a dual, both Peruvian and French, nationality.
She studied at the Virgen del Carmen school in the city of Cusco and the Université Paris Diderot, in Paris, France, from which she graduated with a degree in Psychology in 2003. Subsequently, she received a Master’s Degree in Social Sciences from the New Sorbonne University in 2006, and then a Master’s Degree in Education, with an emphasis on Spanish language, from Madrid’s Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, in 2009. Mendoza also speaks Quechua, an indigenous and official language of Peru.
Mendoza worked as a Spanish-language instructor at the Centre Acadomia Prépa Paris. Later, she served as an instructor at the Asociación Pukllasunchis in Cusco, and as a professor at the Universidad Nacional del Altiplano in Puno.
Political work
While in Europe, Mendoza worked as coordinator for support committees for the Peruvian Nationalist Party. In Peru, she was appointed the party youth’s press secretary in 2009, and as spokesperson for the party’s women’s commission the following year.
In the 2011 Peruvian general elections she ran for Congress, in representation of Cusco, on the Gana Perú coalition’s ticket. She was elected to the office with 47,088 votes. Her term expired in July of 2016.
In 2011, she was named Vice President of the Peruvian Congress’ Committee for Culture and Cultural Heritage. She is also a member of the Congressional Commission on Andean, Amazonian, and Afro-Peruvian Peoples, the Environment, and Ecology. Mendoza is a member of the Campaign in Defense of Water and Territory.
She has served the head of the Cusco Congressional delegation. She resigned from the Gana Perú Congressional delegation on 4 June 2012, following violent repression of protesters and strikers in Espinar Province. Shortly thereafter, she joined the Popular Action—Broad Front parliamentary group.
Presidential Candidacy
After winning the party’s primary elections in October 2015, Mendoza became the Broad Front's (Frente Amplio) candidate in the 2016 presidential election. She finished third in that contest, with 2.8 million (18.8%) valid votes cast in her favor.