Olinda Salguero
Olinda Salguero Orellana (Guatemala City, October 6th, 1984) is a Guatemalan activist. She is director of Fundación Esquipulas para la Integración Centroamericana, a Guatemalan non-governmental institution. She is very well known in the blogosphere because of her profiles in social networks, specially Facebook and Twitter, from where she promotes social initiatives among her followers, such as "Voces por Guate", "Habla Guate","Foro Regional Esquipulas", "Reforestando Centroamérica", to name a few. Besides, she is an University Professor and she is currently enrolled the program Maestría en Integración y Desarrollo (Master in Integration and Development) at Universidad Centroamericana (Nicaragua). Among her hobbies we can name reading, playing tennis, nature, photography, animals, (particularly horses), listening to music and watching movies.
History
Olinda was born in Guatemala City on the 6th of October, 1984, she is the only girl among five siblings. When she was 14 years old she participated in the christian television show called "Buen día" later, she contributed to a TV network called Enlace. She was Magna Cum Laude when she obtained her degree of Licenciada en Ciencias de la Comunicación at Universidad Rafael Landívar (Guatemala), where she presented the dissertation called "Situación actual de las relaciones públicas en Guatemala" on September, 2008, which earned an honorary mention .
While at college, she was involved with the students' directive at Facultad de Humanidades, among other projects that deepened her interest for social causes and politics.
She considers that all the countries in Central American and the Caribbean have better opportunities if they work together and since 2009 she is director of Fundación Esquipulas para la integración Centroamericana, founded by former Guatemalan president and lawyer Vinicio Cerezo. From there she organized already the three editions of Foro regional Esquipulas, an initiative that brings together several presidents and former presidents from Latin American who, along with other analysts, discuss problems that are common among all the countries in the region.
In 2011 she was selected by Prensa Libre, one of the most important newspapers in Guatemala, as one of the ladies that build a better Country with their work.