Office: | Minister of Culture and Sports |
Birth Date: | 1949 1, df=y |
Birth Place: | Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala |
Termstart: | 14 January 2000 |
Termend: | 14 January 2004 |
President: | Alfonso Portillo |
Party: | Encuentro por Guatemala |
Education: | Rafael Landívar University |
Otilia Lux de Cotí is a Guatemalan social leader and politician.
She was a member of that country's Historical Clarification Commission, charged with investigating the human rights violations committed during the Central American nation's 30-year-long civil war. She was later chosen to serve as Minister of Culture and Sport in the cabinet of President Alfonso Portillo. She was a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations, and she served on UNESCO's Executive Board for the 2004 - 2007 period.
In the 9 September 2007 general election, she was elected to Congress as a national list deputy for the Encuentro por Guatemala party.http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/2007/septiembre/11/182190.html