presidential nominee After placing fourth in the mayorship race, she ran for a seat in the Senate, gaining the highest number of votes (328,714), thus elected Senator for the term 1990–1995. Her term as Senator was cut short when President Alberto Fujimori dissolved Congress with his self-coup in 1992. In 1995 Cabanillas ran for the presidency as the Peruvian Aprista Party nominee, attaining only 4.11% of the popular vote. Her running mates were former senator Jorge Lozada Stanbury and Alejandro Santa María Silva. Return to Congress (2000) and second presidency of Alan García (2006-2011) In 2000, she was elected to Congress under the Peruvian Aprista Party. She was reelected in 2001 and 2006. When Alan García was elected President for the term 2006-2011, Congress elected her President of the Congress for the annual term of 2006-2007. On February 19, 2009, President Alan García appointed her Minister of the Interior. As such she was in charge of the Police forces that were sent to the amazon region of Bagua to repress Natives who were protesting against the government that was giving away their ancestral lands to foreign corporations for oil drilling, mining and logging. As a result of the violent intervention of the heavily armed police and military forces over 50 Natives were killed and nearly 200 wounded. As Minister of the Interior she gave the order to attack the Natives. She resigned alongside the Prime Minister Yehude Simon on July 11. She served in Congress until her term expired in 2011, as she failed to win a fourth consecutive election, receiving a minority of votes, prompting her to retire from politics. She remains a very influential leader in the Peruvian Aprista Party, serving as Chair of the party's Electoral Tribunal since 2017. She was reelected to the same position in 2019. See also First Presidency of Alan García Second Presidency of Alan García American Popular Revolutionary Alliance References External links 1947 births Living people Peruvian Ministers of Education Peruvian Ministers of Interior American Popular Revolutionary Alliance politicians Presidents of the Congress of the Republic of Peru Members of the Congress of the Republic of Peru Women government ministers of Peru Female interior ministers Federico Villarreal National University alumni Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Peru Members of the Senate of Peru 20th-century Peruvian politicians 20th-century Peruvian women politicians 21st-century Peruvian politicians 21st-century Peruvian women politicians Women members of the