Carmen Muñoz

Carmen Muñoz is a Costa Rican politician and activist.[1] She is the Vice-Minister Of Government and Police[2] designated by the president Luis Guillermo Solís and commissioned to separate and turn it into an independent ministry of the Ministry of Public Security.[3] She was a congresswoman in the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica where was head of the Citizen Action Party. Until now Muñoz is the only out lesbian that has been in parliament or in charge of a ministry.[4]

Muñoz was born in the canton of Alajuelita, in Costa Rica, daughter of an worker of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity and a housewife, she has seven brothers. She went to Saint Felipe School high school at the Liceo of Alajuelita as well as the system of baccalaureate by Maturity. She left home at the age of fifteen years and enrolled as a warrior in Nicaragua on the side of the Sandinist Front with intention to overthrow the dictator Anastasio Somoza. Afterwards she traveled to Cuba where she studied history, philosophy and political economy in the Julio To Mella school. When she returned to the country she was in the Popular Vanguard Party and graduated in a diverse technical courses of graphic design in the National Institute of Learning. In the year 2001 she entered the Citizen Action Party.

Muñoz exerted several charges in her party including district president, provincial delegate and member of the commission of women of the Citizen Action Party. She was producer of the radio program "The women no" and coordinator of the Patriotic Canton Committee against the Free Trade Treaty with the United States alto related to the respective referendum.

Muñoz was elected deputy by the Citizen Action Party for the period 2010-2014 and was parliamentary spokesman of this fraction, the first of the opposition for the 2013-2014 period. Muñoz is characterized by her support to the feminist struggles and the fight for equality for the LGBTIQ community, as well as promoting the regulation for same sex couples.

Controversy

In May 2013 the congressman and evangelic minister Justo Orozco of the Christian party Costa Rican Renewal requested in a motion that Muñoz be excluded from the Legislative Commission of Human rights that was going to analyse the law project to legalize the unions of couples of the same sex, due to a conflict of interest. The next day the Legislative Plenary made an ovation to Muñoz for her good work as a congresswoman and she received flowers from congressman belonging to right and left parties.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Carmen Muñoz". Ojo al Voto. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
  2. ↑ "Viceministra |". www.mgp.go.cr. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
  3. ↑ "Viceministra |". www.mgp.go.cr. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
  4. ↑ Murillo, Alvaro (21 April 2013). "Carmen Muñoz: la exguerrillera de Alajuelita que llevará el megáfono del PAC". La Nacion (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Soto, Jimena (29 May 2013). "Plenario aplaude trabajo de Carmen Muñoz y reprocha actitud de Justo Orozco". Costa Rica Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  6. ↑ País, Ediciones El (2013-06-18). "Una diputada lesbiana lidera la causa por el matrimonio gay en Costa Rica". EL PAÍS (in Spanish). Retrieved 2016-05-30.
Preceded by:Leda Zamora Chaves2006-2010


Congresswoman of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica (10º place of San José)

2010-2014

 Succeeded By:Rafael Ángel Ortiz Fábrega 2014-2018


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