Carlos Miguel Ramón Basombrío Iglesias (born 31 August 1957) is a Peruvian sociologist, journalist and political scientist.

[1] His great-uncle, the engineer Enrique Basombrío Echenique, was Minister of Agriculture and Food in 1945, during the government of José Luis Bustamante y Rivero, a position he resigned after a severe questioning in Congress, where he was asked about the price of pallares in Ica.

[4] He has been involved with the Woodrow Wilson Center, as a resident fellow from 1994 to 1995, and as coordinator of various projects of the Latin American Program, including that of Citizen Security.

[8] On 3 November 2016, he presented the achievements made during the first hundred days of his administration in terms of citizen security: 25 police mega-operations in various regions of the country that dismantled 18 criminal organizations, 695 dangerous criminal fugitives from justice included in the program of rewards (Que They Take Care), the initiation of the Barrio Seguro project (Pa 'Barrio yo) in areas of higher crime rates and more than 900 vehicles carrying out integrated patrols, in coordination with the national police and serenazgo.

[9] One of the first severe criticisms he received was as a result of the Larcomar fire, where four people died, an occasion in which the possibility that it was a fact slipped, even going so far as to show a video where a person to whom he was presenting was seen as the alleged perpetrator, which was denied days later.

[17] Basombrío's is the author of several books and essays on human rights, democracy, militarism, civil-military relations, citizen security, among other topics:[18]