Ingrid Roxana Baldetti Elías (born May 13, 1962)[2][3] is a Guatemalan politician who served as the first female Vice President of Guatemala from 2012 until her resignation amid a corruption scandal in 2015.

[10][9] After working as an elementary school substitute teacher, Baldetti started her career in journalism on the news program Aquí el Mundo.

[5][14] As required by law, she resigned from Congress ahead of the 2011 Guatemalan general election after formalizing her candidacy as vice president on Pérez's ticket.

[1] Outside of her governmental work, she founded a beauty products company, Maorlis SA, and owned a spa and a hair salon chain.

[19][20][9] The newspaper wrote that she allegedly spent $2,000 worth of government money to buy "private gifts like Swiss chocolates, French perfumes and Ron Zacapa Centenario"[9] and raised suspicions about photographs of drug trafficker Chacón Rossell at Baldetti's birthday party.

[9] In response to the investigation into the unexplained wealth, a Guatemalan judge initiated legal proceedings against the editor of El Periódico, José Rubén Zamora, including issuing Baldetti a restraining order against him.

[9] Baldetti resigned from her post as vice president on May 8, 2015,[1] after a United Nations anti-corruption investigation issued arrest warrants for 24 individuals,[citation needed] including her former personal secretary Juan Carlos Monzón Rojas, for involvement in an import bribery scheme.

Her arrest was followed by prosecutor Thelma Aldana's call for President Molina to be impeached and protests demanding his resignation, which he eventually succumbed to.

[31] On October 9, 2018, Baldetti was sentenced to 15½ years in prison for illicit association, fraud, and influence peddling related to the issuance of government contracts to an Israeli company to clean Lake Amatitlán, something she did without first submitting the requisite environmental paperwork.

[6] In March 2023, the judge granted permission for Baldetti to be transported from the prison to her home four days a week to receive pre-operative treatment for back problems.