Félix Ulloa, Jr.

Félix Augusto Antonio Ulloa Garay (born 6 April 1951) is a Salvadoran politician, speaker, professor, and lawyer who has been the 50th Vice President of El Salvador since 2019. Prior to his tenure as vice president worked as a lawyer and university professor.

Early life and education Félix Ulloa was born in Chinameca, El Salvador, on 6 April 1951, to . and Margarita Garay. His father, the rector of the University of El Salvador, was murdered in 1980. He graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid with a law degree in 1979, and conducted postgraduate studies at the Institute International D'administration Publique and Humphrey School of Public Affairs. He graduated with a degree in banking and finance from the Technological University of El Salvador.

In 1973, Ulloa was president of the Student Electoral Tribunal of the General Association of Salvadoran University Students. He was also a leader in the Salvadoran Social Security Institute Workers' Union.

Career Legal During the Salvadoran Civil War Ulloa was a lawyer for the National Union of Salvadoran Workers. He and other lawyers founded the Institute of Legal Studies of El Salvador, which Ulloa was president of multiple times. He was a political science professor at Universidad del Salvador and a law professor at Central American University, San Salvador.

The Supreme Electoral Court was established as part of the Chapultepec Peace Accords. Ulloa was elected as magistrate of the tribunal. He participated in election monitoring in over twenty countries. He was an expert for the United Nations Department of Political Affairs' electoral assistance division.

In Haiti, Morocco, and Nicaragua Ulloa was resident director of the National Democratic Institute for over ten years.

Politics Ulloa was a member of the National Revolutionary Movement Party, which his father founded, and served on its political commission.

In the 2019 election he was Nayib Bukele's vice presidential running mate and their ticket won. Bukele and Ulloa registered as candidates for the 2024 election with Nuevas Ideas on 25 June 2023, despite the constitutional provisions limiting the president and vice-president to one term. He was granted a leave of absence by the legislature on 30 November, in order to campaign for reelection.

Ulloa attended the coronation of Charles III and Queen Camilla.

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen met with Ulloa to discuss the Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his internment at the Terrorism Confinement Center.

Personal life Ulloa married Lilian Alvarenga, with whom he had three children, in 1973.

Political positions Ulloa defended the mass hearings of up to 900 people used for suspected gang members and lowering the age by which a person can be tried as an adult from 16 to 12. He compared Bukele's allies on the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador to U.S. President Donald Trump's appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States. In 2026, Ulloa denounced the killings of 41,000 Salvadorans by gangs from 2009 to 2019 as a "genocide".

Honours Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels SICA: Grand Cross of the Order of Francisco Morazán (25 September 2023)