Jorge Carpio Nicolle (October 24, 1932 – July 3, 1993) was a prominent Guatemalan politician and newspaper publisher.
He was the founder of the Unión del Centro Nacional (National Centrist Union, or UCN) in 1984, and ran as the party's candidate for president in the elections of 1985 and 1990.
He also served as Guatemala's Ambassador to the United Nations, and formed part of the commission on human rights (1966) [1] He was assassinated on July 3, 1993, along with Juan Vicente Villacorta Fajardo who was a member of one of Guatemala's oldest and well known political families and two other political leaders of the UCN, in the municipality of Chichicastenango, El Quiché.
Promoted the implementation of the Special Olympics for Handicapped Children and was driving several of the most important cycling laps had Guatemala.
Prominent among these a series of articles on "The Social Structure of Guatemala", "Analysis of the Challenges of the Military Junta of Government", "Reflections on the Altiplano Indian Massacres", "Democratizing Decentralization Is" and "Press Freedom and Democracy. "
As a national leader, Jorge Carpio played an important role in the return to democracy after the attempted coup of May 1993.
On July 3 of that year, in an obscure incident, Jorge Carpio was killed along with Juan Vicente Villacorta Fajardo and two other members of UCN in the department of El Quiche, during a political tour of the west.