Silvana Robles

Silvana Emperatriz Robles Araujo (La Merced, November 6, 1984) is a Peruvian nurse technician, dentist and politician. She has been a congresswoman since 2021. She was the last Minister of Culture in the government of Pedro Castillo, from November until the fall of Castillo during his attempted coup d'état in December 2022.

Education She was born in the Peruvian district of Chanchamayo and graduated in technical nursing from the La Merced Technological Institute. In 2017, she graduated as a dental surgeon from Alas Peruanas University.

At the time of her appointment as minister, she was one of the last fifteen congressmen remaining within the parliamentary group of Perú Libre, since the various splits between Perú Democrático and the Bloque Magisterial de Concertación Nacional. The Plenary of Congress refused to admit the motion of censure for debate with sixty-eight votes against and forty-three in favor.

In the 2026 Peruvian general election, she ran for a seat in the Senate of Peru for the national constituency on the Together for Peru party list and was elected. After Miki Torres was elected President of the Congress of the Republic with 30 votes, defeating the left-wing candidate Daniel Barragán's 29, she was blamed for casting the vitiated ballot for Barragán, and she was subsequently suspended from the party caucus in the Senate and was investigated by her party. In defense, she claimed that Agripina Flores from Civic Party OBRAS also didn't show her vote.

Minister of Culture (2022)

On November 25, 2022, she was appointed by the then president, Pedro Castillo, as Minister of Culture in the ministerial cabinet led by Betssy Chávez.

On December 7 of the same year, following Pedro Castillo's attempted self-coup, she presented her irrevocable resignation from her post.