Carlos Miró-Quesada Laos

Carlos Miró Quesada Laos (Lima; — Brussels; ) was a Peruvian journalist, politician and diplomat.

Biography Born in Lima on , he was the son of Antonio Miró Quesada de la Guerra and María Laos Argüelles. His father, a renowned politician and journalist, was president of Congress and director of El Comercio. He completed his school studies at the Inmaculada School in Lima and at the Tome School in Maryland, and completed higher education at the universities of Oxford, La Sorbonne and San Marcos, graduating as a lawyer in Lima (1932).

In 1936, he married Rosa Moreyra y Paz-Soldán, with whom he had an only daughter. Later, he had two more daughters with Beatriz Eguren Carranza.

In 1921, he joined El Comercio, being director of its evening edition from 1928 to 1934 (with an interruption in 1929 when he was confined in San Lorenzo by the government of Augusto B. Leguía). The following year, both of his parents were murdered in an attack perpetrated by an Aprista Party leader, so the general direction of the newspaper passed to his uncle Aurelio Miró Quesada, while the sub-directorship went to him. Considered one of the main defenders and propagandists of fascism in his country, he was deported by the government of Óscar R. Benavides in 1937, so he remained in Europe, travelling through Western Europe until the departure of the military regime in 1940.