Juan Sarmiento Soto has been the Peruvian

Peruvian people

Peru is a multiethnic country formed by the combination of different groups over five centuries, so people in Peru usually treat their nationality as a citizenship rather than an ethnicity. Amerindians inhabited Peruvian territory for several millennia before Spanish Conquest in the 16th century;...

 Minister of Housing, Construction, and Sanitation under President Alan García since September 2009.

Biography

Juan Sarmiento Soto is an engineer

Engineer

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. He was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Housing, Construction, and Sanitation in August 2006, and became full Minister in September 2009.

He is a member of the center-left American Popular Revolutionary Alliance

American Popular Revolutionary Alliance

The Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana is a centre-left Peruvian political party.At the legislative elections held on 9 April 2006, the party won 22.6% of the popular vote and 36 out of 120 seats in the Congress of the Republic...

 political party

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. From 2004 to 2007, he served as Director of Transport and Communications for APRA.