Alba Elvira Lorenzana

Alba Elvira Lorenzana Cardona (Puerto Barrios, January 5, 1950)[1] is the second wife of controversial Latin American media mogul Remigio Ángel González. Her first name was used by his husband for the Albavisión conglomerate and the Cinemas Alba circuit in Guatemala.[2] She has been evading Guatemalan justice between 2016 and 2022.

Biography

Personal life

Ángel González married Alba in a second marriage upon his return to Guatemala in 1980, after a car accident in his honeymoon killed his first wife, who was related to Luis Rabbé.[3] In 2008, González named his media conglomerate Albavisión in her homage.[2]

As of 2016, she was the legal representant of Albavisión's two main channels in Guatemala, Radio Televisión, S.A. (Canal 3) and Televisiete, S.A. (Televisiete, now Canal 7). Between 2008 and 2011, the two stations received Q17.6 million in finances.[4] She had owned both stations since at least the late 70s, alongside Sara Aurora Cardona.[5]

Corruption cases

Between 2008 and 2011, she was involved in a case of political corruption by illegally funding former president Otto Pérez Molina's candidacy.[3]

On September 8, 2016, Interpol issued an arrest order for Alba, due to her connections with a state corruption case that had been dragging since July (Cooptación del Estado).[4] The document revealed that she illegally went from Italy to Miami with a stop in Nicaragua, one of the countries where Albavisión has assets. Also involved in the trip was Remigio's Argentine attorney Carlos Loréfice Lynch.[6] Her case was removed from Interpol's website on July 4, 2017, the cause of which was unknown.[7]

On July 28, 2022, the Second Chamber of Greater Risk of Guatemala demanded the suspension of her arrest order within a 24-hour period.[1] She was benefitted by the Constitutional Court on November 9, annulling her warrant order.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Retiran orden de captura contra Alba Elvira Lorenzana Cardona, esposa de Ángel González, luego de resolución de Sala Segunda de Mayor Riesgo
  2. ^ a b Dom Serafini, Video Age International, Central American Television Touched By An Angel, January 2010
  3. ^ a b Remigio Ángel González González
  4. ^ a b Interpol publica orden de captura de Alba Lorenzana
  5. ^ Leyendo blogs (5): Monopólico y autoritario hombre de la comunicación social (¿González o Clarín?)
  6. ^ De Italia a Miami vía Nicaragua: la fuga de la dueña de los canales
  7. ^ Piden a Interpol explicación por desaparición de alertas
  8. ^ Caso Cooptación del Estado: CC acuerpa a Alba Lorenzana y confirma anulación de orden de captura en su contra Resolución de la CC beneficia a Alba Elvira Lo
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