Prior to his appointment as Minister, he served as an Adviser to the Minister of Public Works. In 2020, Guatemalan authorities requested his extradition but the Supreme Court of Justice declared such a request inadmissible.
On Wednesday afternoon, the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, announced that he had appointed Joan Carles Bidegaín Hanania as the new Minister of the Interior, who served as advisor and deputy director in the Ministry of Public Works (MOP). .
Bidegaín acted like so in spite of its direct kinship with the minister of Education, Car it Evelyn Hanania de Varela, of that is son, according to has verified with official documents the Newspaper of Today.
As a VMT office advisor he had a salary of $ 3,621.
The official also has a lawsuit open in Guatemala, for mistreatment of minors.
For this crime, the Guatemalan authorities asked his Salvadoran counterparts to extradite him, but in May 2020, the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador ruled that such a request was inadmissible.
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Bidegaín Hanania lived for several years in Guatemala, where he married Silvia Patricia TR in 2009.
“The new head of @GobernacionSV is: Joan Carles Bidegaín. From the beginning of our Government he worked as a director at @VMTElSalvador,” Bukele posted on his Twitter account.
He also said that since September he has coordinated the logistics of the Health Emergency Program (PES) and the Interdisciplinary Epidemiological Containment Team from the Ministry of Health.
The appointment corresponds to the announcement number five of the ten that Bukele hopes to make over the next few hours and comes weeks before Mario Durán, who presided over the state portfolio, takes his place as mayor of San Salvador.
This is one more of the changes made in the Cabinet of Government, most recently occurred on March 26 when Gustavo Villatoro was appointed Minister of Justice and Security, leaving his post in the Superintendence of the Financial System.
Joan Carles Bidegaín Hanania, who served as advisor and deputy director in the Ministry of Public Works (MOP), assumes the post of Governor. Photo: Illustrative and non-commercial image / twitter.com / nayibbukele / status / 1379927054460784646
Also, it is known of the replacement of Pablo Anliker as Minister of Agriculture, and although the announcement of a new official has not yet been made officially by the Press Secretariat of the Presidency, the former official already withdrew his post from his main Twitter account.
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Bidegaín is a graduate of the Evangelical University with a degree in Business Administration and in his work experience on the Information Portal highlights:
2016 -2019 EL RINCON. General Manager
February 2008 – January 2014. DAESA SA DE CV. General Manager
July 2004 – February 2008. Aquapura SA DE CV. Marketing Manager.
January 2000 – July 2004. Aquapura SA DE CV. Sales manager.
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