Enrique Antonio Degenhart Asturias

Enrique Antonio Degenhart Asturias (born October 9, 1968) is a Guatemalan politician who served as the Minister of the Interior from January 26, 2018, to January 14, 2020, during the presidency of Jimmy Morales.

Biography Degenhart was born in Guatemala in 1968. He worked as a public official in the General Directorate of Immigration, becoming the director of said institution from 2010 to 2012. He was an immigration advisor in the United States Department of Homeland Security, in Customs Control in Texas from 2012 to 2015 and in Virginia Customs Control from 2015 to 2018. Degenhart had a long friendship with the late former mayor of Guatemala City Álvaro Arzú, who died in 2018.

Minister of the Interior On January 26, 2018, President Jimmy Morales appointed him Minister of the Interior, replacing Francisco Rivas Lara. The agreement was criticized by the Democratic Party, the Guatemalan opposition and the then presidential candidates Alejandro Giammattei and Sandra Torres, who called the agreement "dark" and "lack of transparency." At that time it was rumored that he would possibly be a presidential or vice-presidential candidate proposed by that party to participate in the 2023 general elections, but in December 2022 it was announced that he would be a candidate for deputy for the Central District for the Valor-Unionist coalition in the second box behind Sandra Jovel.