Claudia Juana Rodríguez de Guevara (born 1980 or 1981) is a Salvadoran accountant who is a former presidential designate and President of El Salvador from 1 December 2023 to 1 June 2024.
[9] In August 2018, she was appointed as the finance manager for Nuevas Ideas, the political party established by Bukele in 2017; she is a member of Nuevas Ideas[7] In December 2023, the Gato Encerrado magazine alleged that she had received US$1.2 million in checks from the San Salvador mayor's office during Bukele's term as mayor of San Salvador.
[18] On 30 November 2023, the Legislative Assembly selected Rodríguez as the designated president after granting Bukele a leave of absence to focus on his 2024 re-election campaign,[19] which many politicians and constitutional lawyers have argued is illegal and unconstitutional.
[26] President of the Legislative Assembly Castro and Guillermo Gallegos, a deputy from the Grand Alliance for National Unity, contradicted each other as to whether Rodríguez was sworn in or not.
Meanwhile, Gallegos claimed that she was not sworn in as "she is simply the presidential designate, [...] it was determined that a swearing in was not necessary" ("ella es simplemente la designada del presidente, [...] se determinó que no era necesario el juramentarla").
[29] Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) deputy to the Legislative Assembly César Reyes described Rodríguez as part of "President Bukele's inner circle" ("círculo mas íntimo del presidente Bukele") and "a very unknown profile to everyone" ("un perfil que no era muy conocido para todos") who "they installed to guard the throne [presidency]" ("pusieron para que cuidara el trono").
[30] Political analyst Carlos Araujo stated that "Only a naïve person would believe that [Rodríguez] is going to govern, he [Bukele] is not going to let go of power, he will be involved in reviewing what his ministers do.
[32] On 17 December 2023, Rodríguez accepted the resignation of Moisés Cabrera, the president of the board of directors of the Development Bank of El Salvador.