Fausto Humberto Alvarado Dodero (12 July 1950 – 15 September 2019)[1] was a Peruvian lawyer, politician and historian.
He then entered the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the National University of San Marcos.
[3] He later received a PhD in History of the Americas from the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville.
[3] On 27 July 2002, he was appointed Minister of Justice by President Alejandro Toledo; as such, he carried out a modernization of the justice sector, among his achievements the awarding in favor of the General Archive of the Nation of the old post office of the Central Post, the issuance of the Criminal Procedure Code (President of the Review Commission), the creation of CERIAJUS (Special Commission for Integral Reform of the Administration of Justice), the elaboration of the National Penitentiary Treatment Plan and the Recommendations for Legal Physical Sanitation and Informal Property Titling.
[3] In February 2004, he resigned from the position of Minister of Justice,[4] after which he returned to his work as a congressman, being elected First Vice President of Congress in the period 2005–2006.