Gerardo Justo Orozco Álvarez (born 1950) is a Costa Rican pastor, lawyer, mathematician and politician.
[1] Founder member of the Universidad Cristiana del Sur, a private university in Costa Rica, where he received his law degree.
As Congressman, Orozco is heavily opposed all initiatives for same-sex marriage and civil unions and was accused of homophobia,[2] especially after verbally confronting then-Congresswoman and future minister Carmen Muñoz, who is openly lesbian, accusing her of legislating in self-benefit.
[3][4] In 2013 Orozco’s Southern Christian University was raided by judicial authorities pending investigation on charges of degree falsification and alleged exchange of sexual favors among students and teachers for grades.
[5] Costa Rica’s board of superior education CONESUP also opened an investigation over degrees and grades irregularities.