Absalón Vásquez Villanueva (born March 2, 1950) is a Peruvian agricultural engineer, university professor and Fujimorist politician.

Additionally, he was Minister of Agriculture from 1992 to 1996, the longest term in Peru’s history, during the government of Alberto Fujimori.

[1] Vásquez began his political career in 1988, when he was named a vice-minister in the first government of Alan García, a role from which he resigned in 1989.

In 2008, he was sentenced to seven years in prison when he was found responsible for massive forgery of signatures for the Vamos Vecino party, a group that supported the reelection of Alberto Fujimori, for which he would later receive a habeas corpus.

[3] In 2013, he was absolved in a courtroom presided by judge Villa Stein for the case of the “Vladipoles”, in which he was accused of misusing funds for the purchase of propaganda materials supporting Fujimori’s reelection[4]