Jorge Antonio Serrano Elías (born April 26, 1945) is a Guatemalan industrial engineer and politician who served as the 41st president of Guatemala from January 14, 1991 to June 1, 1993.
As his party gained only 18 of 116 seats in Congress, Serrano entered into a tenuous alliance with the Christian Democrats and Carpio's National Union of the Center (UCN).
It succeeded in consolidating civilian control over the army, replacing several senior officers, and persuading the military to participate in peace talks with the URNG.
The Serrano administration reversed the economic slide it inherited, reducing inflation and boosting real growth.
However, Serrano's action met with strong protests by most elements of Guatemalan society, at the forefront of which was the Siglo Veintiuno newspaper under the leadership of José Rubén Zamora.
However, Espina was also involved in Serrano's self-coup, and Congress replaced him with Human Rights Ombudsman Ramiro de León Carpio.