Manuel Ricardo Villacorta Orantes (born March 29, 1959) is a Guatemalan former politician, professor and writer who served as Guatemala's ambassador to Israel from 1999 to 2000.
[1][2] Villacorta was born on March 29, 1959, in Guatemala City in the bosom of a scholar family.
His father Manuel José Villacorta Escobar was an economist, who served as a professor at the Faculty of Economics of the Universidad de San Carlos.
[1] Villacorta graduated with a degree in Political Science from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, later he studied Social Communication at the United Kingdom and a Doctorate in Political Science and Sociology at the Pontifical University of Salamanca.
[1][3] Villacorta was proclaimed presidential candidate by a party named Winaq, founded by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchú.