41 Notable alumni of
Higher University of San Andres
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The Higher University of San Andres is 1364th in the world, 56th in Latin America, and 1st in Bolivia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 41 notable alumni from the Higher University of San Andres sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Luis Arce
- Enrolled in the Higher University of San Andres
- Graduated with licentiate in economics
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, often referred to as Lucho, is a Bolivian banker, economist, and politician serving as the 67th president of Bolivia since 2020. A member of the Movement for Socialism, he previously served as minister of finance—later minister of economy and public finance—from 2006 to 2017, and in 2019.
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Carlos Mesa
- Enrolled in the Higher University of San Andres
- Graduated with alumnus in literature
- Occupations
- vice presidentpoliticianwriterhistorianjournalist
- Biography
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Carlos Diego de Mesa Gisbert is a Bolivian historian, journalist, and politician who served as the 63rd president of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005. As an independent politician, he had previously served as the 37th vice president of Bolivia from 2002 to 2003 under Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and was the international spokesman for Bolivia's lawsuit against Chile in the International Court of Justice from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Revolutionary Left Front, he has served as leader of Civic Community, the largest opposition parliamentary group in Bolivia, since 2018.
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Víctor Paz Estenssoro
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Ángel Víctor Paz Estenssoro was a Bolivian politician who served as the 45th president of Bolivia for three nonconsecutive and four total terms from 1952 to 1956, 1960 to 1964 and 1985 to 1989. He ran for president eight times (1947, 1951, 1960, 1964, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1985) and was victorious in 1951, 1960, 1964 and 1985. His 1951 victory was annulled by a military junta led by Hugo Ballivián, and his 1964 victory was interrupted by the 1964 Bolivian coup d'état.
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Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz
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- writerjournalistpolitician
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Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz was a noted writer, dramatist, journalist, social commentator, university professor, and socialist political leader from Bolivia. In 1964 Marcelo won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novel Los Deshabitados.
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Alcides Arguedas
- Occupations
- politicianhistoriographerwriterhistoriandiplomat
- Biography
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Alcides Arguedas Díaz was a Bolivian writer and historian. His literary work, which had a profound influence on the Bolivian social thought in the first half of the twentieth century, addresses issues related to national identity, miscegenation, and indigenous affairs. His most significant work, Raza de bronce ("Bronze Race") (1919), is considered one of the most influential Bolivian literary works and a precursor of indigenism.
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Ismael Montes Gamboa
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Ismael Montes Gamboa was a Bolivian general and political figure who served as the 26th president of Bolivia twice nonconsecutively from 1904 to 1909 and from 1913 to 1917. During his first term, the Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Chile was signed on 20 October 1904.
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Augusto Céspedes Patzi
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- short story writerjournalistdiplomatwriternovelist
- Biography
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Augusto Céspedes Patzi was a Bolivian writer, politician, diplomat, and journalist. He was the brother-in-law of writer Carlos Montenegro.
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Felipe Quispe
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Felipe Quispe Huanca "Mallku", (22 August 1942 – 19 January 2021) was a Bolivian historian and political leader. He headed the Pachakuti Indigenous Movement (MIP) and was general secretary of the United Union Confederation of Working Peasants of Bolivia (CSUTCB).
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Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
- Enrolled in the Higher University of San Andres
- In 1976 studied sociology
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterhistoriansociologist
- Biography
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Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui is a Bolivian feminist, sociologist, historian, and subaltern theorist. She is Emeritus Professor at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia, where she taught Sociology for over thirty years. She draws upon anarchist theory as well as Quechua and Aymara cosmologies. She is a former director and longtime member of the Taller de Historia Oral Andina (Workshop on Andean Oral History). The Taller de Historia Oral Andina has conducted an ongoing critique of Western epistemologies through writings and activism for nearly two decades. She is also an activist who works directly with indigenous movements in Bolivia, such as the Katarista movement and the coca growers movement.
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Félix Patzi
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Félix Patzi Paco is a Bolivian academic and politician. He was the governor of the La Paz Department from 2015 to 2021. A member of the Aymara ethnic group, he has been active in supporting indigenous movements in Bolivia.
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Jorge Sanjinés
- Occupations
- writerfilm directorscreenwriter
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Jorge Sanjinés Aramayo is a Bolivian film director and screenwriter. He founded the production group Grupo Ukamau. He won the ALBA Prize for Arts in 2009.
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Víctor Hugo Cárdenas
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Víctor Hugo Cárdenas Conde is a Bolivian indigenous Aymara activist and politician. He is the leader of the MRTKL party (Revolutionary Liberation Movement Tupaq Katari). He was the 35th vice president of Bolivia from 1993 to 1997 during the first presidency of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada.
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Carlos Romero Bonifaz
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- writerpoliticianlawyer
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Carlos Gustavo Romero Bonifaz is a Bolivian lawyer and politician who served as minister of government from 2012 to 2014 and from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Movement for Socialism, Romero previously served as minister of the presidency from 2011 to 2012, as minister of autonomies from 2009 to 2011, and as minister of rural development from 2008 to 2009. In 2014, he was elected Senator for Santa Cruz, a position he held briefly between January and May 2015.
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Jorge Medina
- Occupations
- composerpoliticiancivil rights advocate
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Jorge Medina Barra was a Bolivian civil rights activist and politician who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz, representing its special indigenous circumscription from 2010 to 2015.
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Freddy Mamani
- Occupations
- civil engineerbricklayerarchitect
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Freddy Mamani Silvestre is a Bolivian self-taught architect noted for his development of the Neo-Andean architectural style. His work is most associated with the city of El Alto and with the new social class of upwardly mobile indigenous Bolivians.
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Luis Revilla
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Luis "Lucho" Revilla is a Bolivian politician who has been the mayor of La Paz since 31 May 2010, succeeding Juan del Granado. Before becoming mayor, he worked over ten years for the city. He is married to Maricruz Ribera.
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Néstor Guillén
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Néstor Guillén Olmos was a Bolivian judge, lawyer, and politician who served as the 40th president of Bolivia from July to August 1946.
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Soledad Chapetón
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Carmen Soledad Chapetón Tancara is a Bolivian politician with expertise in pedagogy. She was the first woman to serve as Mayor of El Alto, a post she held from 31 May 2015 through 3 May 2021.
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Teresa Gisbert Carbonell
- Occupations
- art historianarchitectresearcherrestorer
- Biography
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Teresa Gisbert Carbonell de Mesa was a Bolivian architect and art historian. She specialized in the history of the Andean region.
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Wilma Alanoca
- Occupations
- ministerpoliticiantelevision journalistradio journalist
- Biography
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Antonia Wilma Alanoca Mamani is a Bolivian journalist, politician, and television presenter who served as minister of cultures and tourism from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Movement for Socialism, she previously served an El Alto municipal councilor from 2015 to 2017, a position she returned to in 2021.
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Ñuflo Chávez Ortiz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ñuflo Chavez Ortiz was a Bolivian lawyer and politician. He was 28th vice president of Bolivia during the first Government of Hernán Siles Zuazo since August 1956 till he resigned in 1957. He was one of the founders of MNR (National Revolutionary Movement), along with Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Wálter Guevara Arze, Carlos Montenegro, Germán Monroy Block and Lidia Gueiler Tejada, amongst others.
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Pablo Ramos
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Pablo Ramos Sánchez was a Bolivian economist, writer, rector and university professor. He was the last Prefect (interim) of La Paz Department from August 10, 2008 to May 29, 2010 during the first government of President Evo Morales Ayma. He was also the President of the Central Bank of Bolivia from 3 January 2017 to 17 December 2019.
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Luciano Durán Böger
- Occupations
- writerjournalistpoet
- Biography
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Luciano Durán Böger was a Bolivian poet, writer and politician. Son of Luciano Duran Pérez and Aurora Böger Rivero, was born in 1904 in Santa Ana, capital of the Yacuma province of the Department of Beni in Bolivia, and died in 1996 in the city of La Paz.
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Mario Guillén
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Mario Alberto Guillén Suárez is a Bolivian industrial engineer, lawyer, and politician who served as Minister of Economy and Public Finance from 2017 to 2019 during the administration of Evo Morales. Prior, he was Vice Minister of Pensions and Financial Services from 2009 to 2017 and served as the general manager of the Union Bank in 2019.
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Jaime Aparicio Otero
- Occupations
- journalistdiplomatlawyer
- Biography
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Jaime Aparicio Otero is the Bolivian Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States and was Bolivian Agent to the International Court of Justice, in the Hague, in the process against Chile related to the Silala waters. Ambassador Aparicio is a career diplomat, lawyer, journalist and a Washington-based legal and political advisor. He was also a political analyst working in international public and corporate affairs in Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. He has a Law Degree from the Higher University of San Andrés of La Paz, the Bolivian Diplomatic Academy and the Institute d’Etudes Politiques commonly referred as Sciences Po de Paris.
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Fernando Huanacuni Mamani
- Occupations
- politicianresearcherlawyer
- Biography
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Fernando Huanacuni Mamani is a Bolivian politician, lawyer and researcher. He served as the Foreign Minister of Bolivia from 2017 to 2018.
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Ximena Bedregal Sáez
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- writerjournalistarchitect
- Biography
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Ximena Bedregal Sáez is a Chilean-Bolivian architect, writer, theoretician, professor, editor, photographer, and feminist lesbian. In Mexico, she founded Centro de Investigación, Capacitación y Apoyo a la Mujer (CICAM; Centre for Research, Training and Support of Women), and edited its magazine, La Correa Feminista.
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Elizabeth Salguero
- Occupations
- politicianwriterjournalistdiplomat
- Biography
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Elizabeth Cristina Salguero Carrillo is a Bolivian diplomat, journalist, politician, and women's rights activist who served as minister of cultures from 2011 to 2012. A member of the Movement for Socialism, she previously served as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz from 2006 to 2009. In 2009, she was elected as a substitute party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz but resigned before taking office in order to launch an ultimately unsuccessful La Paz mayoral campaign. From 2012 to 2015, she served as ambassador of Bolivia to Germany, and since then has worked as an international expert in strategic planning at UN Women.
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Ana Lucía Reis
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ana Lucía Reis is a Bolivian politician, Mayor of Cobija, and owner of an ecological hotel. She is affiliated with the Movement for Socialism (MAS). She started her career as a Congressional deputy representing the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, elected in 2002, but changed to the MAS in 2005 and was re-elected for this party. She won the 2010 mayoral election in Cobija with 53.7% of the vote, the highest vote for any of the mayors in the main cities.
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Mónica Rey Gutiérrez
- Occupations
- professorpoliticianactivist
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Adalberta Mónica Rey Gutiérrez is an Afro-Bolivian cultural leader and activist whose anthropological research helped pass legislation for formal recognition of Afro-Bolivians as an ethnic category in the census of the country. After serving as an educator and cultural activist for many years, she went to work in the government. She is currently a supranational delegate in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia.
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Bertha Acarapi
- Occupations
- politiciantelevision presenteractorradio personalitymodel
- Biography
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Bertha Beatriz Acarapi is a Bolivian politician and former television presenter serving as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz since 2020. A member of the Movement for Socialism, she previously served as an El Alto municipal councillor from 2000 to 2004 on behalf of the Revolutionary Left Movement and from 2004 to 2010 on behalf of Plan Progress for Bolivia. During her second term, she served as president of the El Alto Municipal Council from 2006 to 2007, becoming the first woman to assume that post. Outside of politics, Acarapi's lengthy career in radio and television journalism led her to join ATB in 2015, becoming one of the country's first high-profile chola indigenous presenters.
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Ana Teresa Morales
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- docenteconomistconsultant
- Biography
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Ana Teresa Morales Olivera is a Bolivian economist, professor, and politician. She was the Minister of Productive Development and Plural Economy of Bolivia from 23 January 2011, to 23 January 2015, during the second government of President Evo Morales Ayma.
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Verónica Ramos
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Ana Verónica Ramos Morales is a Bolivian economist, university professor, and former general manager of the Productive Development Bank. She was the Minister of Productive Development and Plural Economy of Bolivia from January 2015 to January 2017, during the third government of President Evo Morales.
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Nila Heredia
- Occupations
- politicianphysicianhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Nila Heredia Miranda is a former medical school anatomy professor and administrator, former leftist militant, and Bolivia's Minister of Health and Sports, a position she has occupied twice.
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Héctor Enrique Arce Zaconeta
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Héctor Enrique Arce Zaconeta is a Bolivian lawyer, politician, who served as the Attorney General of Bolivia. He served as a Member of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly from 2010 to 2014, representing La Paz for the Movement for Socialism
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Julián Montellano
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Julian V. Montellano Carrasco served as the 25th vice president of Bolivia from 1945 to 1946, during the presidency of Gualberto Villarroel.
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Roberto Ivan Aguilar Gomez
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Roberto Ivan Aguilar Gómez is a Bolivian economist, former university official, politician, and former Minister of Education from 2008 until 2019, when Evo Morales resigned. Aguilar served as docent, general secretary, and rector in the Universidad Mayor de San Andres in La Paz. In 2006, he was elected as a plurinominal member of the Bolivian Constituent Assembly for the Movement for Socialism and served as its vice president. In November 2008, he was appointed by Evo Morales as Minister of Education, succeeding Magdalena Cajías.
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Elías Blanco Mamani
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Elías Blanco Mamani is a Bolivian journalist, writer, and prolific biographer whose works include the Bolivian Cultural Dictionary which has compiled information on the lives of over 2000 poets, novelists, writers, and other protagonists of Bolivian cultural history. He is the founder and operator of the editorial and museum El Aparapita in La Paz.
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Belisario Salinas
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Belisario Salinas Belzu was a Bolivian lawyer, teacher, and politician who served as the fifth vice president of Bolivia from 1880 to 1884. He served as second vice president alongside first vice president Aniceto Arce during the administration of Narciso Campero.
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Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana
- Occupations
- ethnobotanistbotanist
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Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana is a Bolivian ethnobotanist. She investigates the use and protection of traditional knowledge of plants in indigenous communities, particularly in the Bolivian Andes. She is currently an Associated Researcher at the Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Mayor de San Andres in Bolivia. Her goal is giving them the knowledge to participate in decision-making on the conservation of their intangible cultural heritage.
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Arturo von Vacano
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Arturo von Vacano was a Bolivian novelist and journalist. He wrote fiction in the 1970s and 1980s during periods of military dictatorship. He died in the Washington, D.C., area in December 2019, a month before his eighty-second birthday.
