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Master Werner Ovalle Ramirez

Vice Minister of the Ministry of the Interior since January 15, 2024 and was Superintendent of Customs of the Superintendency of Tax Administration -SAT- for 7 years and 9 months. He was Regional Vice President of the World Customs Organization for the Americas and the Caribbean from July 01, 2020 to June 30, 2022. He has a degree in Legal and Social Sciences, graduated from the Rafael Landívar University. He has 3 master's degrees in Politics, Public Security, as well as Integration and Development, and is a graduate of the Senior Management Program at INCAE Business School. He is a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the Rafael Landívar University, at the master's and bachelor's level. In the Ministry of the Interior, he will be in charge of strengthening security at borders, seaports and airports with special emphasis on anti-drug, immigration and smuggling issues. He has extensive experience in Central American integration, information analysis and inter-institutional coordination, thanks to the work carried out both in the public sector and in international organizations during his more than 22 years of professional career.

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