Víctor Isla

Who is Víctor Isla?

Víctor Isla Rojas is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. Since 2006 he has been a Congressman representing Loreto.

From 1986 to 1992, Víctor Isla studied law and political science at the National University of San Marcos in Lima. From 1994 to 2002 he worked as an independent lawyer and outside adviser. In 1998, he was elected provincial councillor in his hown province of Alto Amazonas representing the We Are Peru party. In the 2002 regional election, he was elected vice president of the Loreto Region. In 2006, he was elected Congressman on the joint Union for Peru-Peruvian Nationalist Party list representing the constituency of Loreto for the 2006-2011 term. Isla returned to his alma mater to take a postgradual course in constitutional and human rights laws from 2008 to 2009. He was reelected for the 2011-2016 term, this time on the Nationalist-dominated Peru Wins list.