Doris Gutiérrez

Doris Alejandrina Gutiérrez (born 21 August 1947) is a Honduran lawyer and politician, who is currently the Vice President of Honduras.

[2] Gutiérrez completed her primary studies at the Universidad José Cecilio del Valle, then graduated from the Sacred Heart Institute in Tegucigalpa as a teacher with high marks, going on to win further academic honors while studying education.

[2] While working with organized labor she decided to enter politics and in 1995, she joined the Democratic Unification Party as the substitute deputy of Matías Fúnez.

[5] In early March 2016, Gutiérrez announced two new projects: to have the Gualcarque river declared an area of National Heritage and to officially declare Berta Cáceres, who worked to protect the river, a national heroine and name the area after her.

[6][7] In the aftermath of a 2017 student demonstration at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras following the charging of Cesario Padilla, Moisés Cáceres, and Sergio Ulloa with usurpation by the Honduran Supreme Court, Gutiérrez found herself amongst other politicians accused of orchestrating the demonstration by Julieta Castellanos.