[1] In 2015, he was assigned to be part of Alan García's Popular Alliance presidential ticket with Lourdes Flores.
Salazar is also the leader of the regional movement "Frente Popular Llapanchik".
He completed his primary studies in the town of Ongoy and the city of Talavera.
High school began in Andahuaylas and culminated in the Leoncio Prado Military College, in El Callao, in 1969.
Between 1970 and 1982 he studied industrial engineering at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.