Jorge Marticorena Cuba

Jorge Marticorena Cuba (9 November 1956 – 1 March 2021) was a Peruvian politician. He was District Mayor of Lurín, serving from 2007 to 2014 and again from 2019 until his death in 2021.

Biography
Cuba was born in the Tantara District to Jorge Marticorena Salvatierra and Sebastiana Cuba Violeta. He attended the Institución Educativa Emblemática Alfonso Ugarte in Lima for his primary and secondary studies, and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University for his accounting degree.

Cuba stood in the Elecciones municipales de Lima de 1989 as a member of the Peruvian Aprista Party, which would later merge into the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance. He was elected to be a Municipal Councillor for the Lurín district from 1990 to 1993. He ran for Mayor of the district in Elecciones municipales de Lima de 2002, but was defeated by José Luis Ayllón Mini. However, he redeemed himself in Elecciones municipales de Lima de 2006, winning the seat. He was reelected in the Elecciones municipales de Lima de 2010 but lost to José Arakaki Nakamine in the Elecciones municipales de Lima de 2014. For the 2018 elections, he switched to the party We Are Peru and once again won the seat of District Mayor of Lurín.

Jorge Marticorena contracted COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru in February 2021. He died on 1 March 2021 at the age of 64, becoming the third district mayor in the Lima metropolitan area to die of the disease, following Luis Chauca Navarro and Claudio Marcatoma Ccahuana.