Wanda Vázquez Garced is a Puerto Rican politician and attorney. She served as the Governor of Puerto Rico from 2019 to 2021. She is the second female governor in Puerto Rico history after Sila María Calderón. On August 16 she failed to secure the New Progressive Party nomination for governor in the 2020 elections.
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Wanda Vázquez Garced is a Puerto Rican politician and attorney. She served as the Governor of Puerto Rico from 2019 to 2021. She is the second female governor in Puerto Rico history after Sila María Calderón. Prior to her tenure as governor, she served as the 19th Secretary of Justice from 2017 to 2019. On August 16 she failed to secure the New Progressive Party nomination for governor in the 2020 elections, losing to Pedro Pierluisi. She was met with opposition, with critics calling for her resignation due to allegations of corruption and inability to deal with domestic violence on the island. The hashtag #WandaRenuncia began trending on Twitter soon after Ricardo Rosselló announced his intention to resign.
She said she wants to work with President Donald Trump to help the island and its 3 million American citizens recover from Hurricane Maria. She has a younger brother and an older sister. Her parents worked in a factory, her father as a security guard. Her mother died at the age of 53. Her father has been remarried for twenty years. She began her primary studies at the Ramón Marín and Margarita Janer schools in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. In 2010, she was appointed to replace Ivonne Feliciano as the head of the Office for Women’s Rights of the island, and was confirmed and sworn in January 18, 2017.
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