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Beatriz Merino Wikipedia

Beatriz Merino (born 1947) was the first female Prime Minister of Peru. She held the office between March 2002 and December 15, 2003. Before she was appointed, she was a lawyer and in charge of Peru's tax office. Near the end of her term, she fell out with President Alejandro Toledo over the style of her administration and other issues, and she resigned at his request.

• On November, 2005, she was appointed as the Defensor of the People becaming the first woman holding that tittle.