Armando Castillo (politician)

Armando Damián Castillo Alvarado (born 27 September 1965)[1] is a Guatemalan businessman and politician who has served as a deputy of the Guatemalan Congress for the National List from 2020 to 2024 for the Visión con Valores (VIVA) party, he is also Secretary General of the same political grouping since 2022.

[3] He lived in that department until he turned 15, but had to migrate to Guatemala City due to the increase in violence in the context of the Guatemalan Civil War.

He was elected as a deputy and took office on January 14, 2020 as part of the IX Legislature of Guatemala.

[1] As a member of Congress, he was a member of several parliamentary commissions such as Labor, Food Security, Health and Social Assistance, Environment, Ecology and Natural Resources, and Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries.

[2] n that same year, he supported and voted in favor of the controversial decree 18-2022, officially known as the "Law for the Protection of Life and Family" which criminalized abortion and would have blocked sexual education and rejected gender diversity.