37 Notable alumni of
Higher University of San Andres

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The Higher University of San Andres is 1392nd in the world, 57th in Latin America, and 2nd in Bolivia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 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.

  1. Luis Arce

    Luis Arce
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1963-.. (age 61)
    Enrolled in the Higher University of San Andres
    Graduated with Licentiate in economics
    Occupations
    economistpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  2. Víctor Paz Estenssoro

    Víctor Paz Estenssoro
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1907-2001 (aged 94)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  3. Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz

    Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1931-1980 (aged 49)
    Occupations
    journalistwriterpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  4. Alcides Arguedas

    Alcides Arguedas
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1879-1946 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    diplomathistorianwriterhistoriographerpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  5. Ismael Montes Gamboa

    Ismael Montes Gamboa
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1861-1933 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  6. Augusto Céspedes Patzi

    Augusto Céspedes Patzi
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1904-1997 (aged 93)
    Occupations
    journalistwriterpoliticiandiplomat
    Biography

    Augusto Céspedes Patzi was a Bolivian writer, politician, diplomat, and journalist. He was the brother-in-law of writer Carlos Montenegro.

  7. Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

    Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1949-.. (age 75)
    Enrolled in the Higher University of San Andres
    In 1976 studied sociology
    Occupations
    historianwriteruniversity teachersociologist
    Biography

    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.

  8. Félix Patzi

    Félix Patzi
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  9. Jorge Sanjinés

    Jorge Sanjinés
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1936-.. (age 88)
    Occupations
    film directorwriterscreenwriter
    Biography

    Jorge Sanjinés is a Bolivian film director and screenwriter. He founded the production group Grupo Ukamau. He won the ALBA Prize for Arts in 2009.

  10. Víctor Hugo Cárdenas

    Víctor Hugo Cárdenas
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  11. Jorge Medina

    Jorge Medina
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1968-2022 (aged 54)
    Occupations
    civil rights advocatepoliticiancomposer
    Biography

    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.

  12. Carlos Romero Bonifaz

    Carlos Romero Bonifaz
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1966-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    politicianwriterlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  13. Luis Revilla

    Luis Revilla
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  14. Néstor Guillén

    Néstor Guillén
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1890-1966 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    Néstor Guillén Olmos was a Bolivian lawyer and politician who served as the 40th president of Bolivia on a de facto interim basis in 1946.

  15. Freddy Mamani

    Freddy Mamani
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    civil engineerarchitectbricklayer
    Biography

    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.

  16. Soledad Chapetón

    Soledad Chapetón
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1980-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  17. Teresa Gisbert Carbonell

    Teresa Gisbert Carbonell
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1926-2018 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    researcherarchitectart historianrestorer
    Biography

    Teresa Gisbert Carbonell de Mesa was a Bolivian architect and art historian. She specialized in the history of the Andean region.

  18. Wilma Alanoca Mamani

    Wilma Alanoca Mamani
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1985-.. (age 39)
    Occupations
    communicatorpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  19. Ñuflo Chávez Ortiz

    Ñuflo Chávez Ortiz
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1923-1996 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  20. Luciano Durán Böger

    Luciano Durán Böger
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1904-1996 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    journalistwriterpoet
    Biography

    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.

  21. Jaime Aparicio Otero

    Jaime Aparicio Otero
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    diplomatjournalistlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  22. Mario Guillén

    Mario Guillén
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  23. Fernando Huanacuni Mamani

    Fernando Huanacuni Mamani
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1966-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    researcherpoliticianlawyer
    Biography

    Fernando Huanacuni Mamani is a Bolivian politician, lawyer and researcher. He served as the Foreign Minister of Bolivia from 2017 to 2018.

  24. Ximena Bedregal Sáez

    Ximena Bedregal Sáez
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    journalistwriterarchitect
    Biography

    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.

  25. Elizabeth Salguero

    Elizabeth Salguero
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    journalistwriterpoliticiandiplomat
    Biography

    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.

  26. Bertha Acarapi

    Bertha Acarapi
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    film actormodelradio personalityactortelevision presenter
    Biography

    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.

  27. Mónica Rey Gutiérrez

    Mónica Rey Gutiérrez
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    politicianprofessoractivist
    Biography

    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.

  28. Verónica Ramos

    Verónica Ramos
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    20th Century
    Occupations
    economistpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  29. Ana Teresa Morales

    Ana Teresa Morales
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1959-.. (age 65)
    Occupations
    economistdocentconsultant
    Biography

    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.

  30. Nila Heredia

    Nila Heredia
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    physicianpoliticianhuman rights activist
    Biography

    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.

  31. Julián Montellano

    Julián Montellano
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1900-1989 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Julian V. Montellano Carrasco served as the 25th vice president of Bolivia from 1945 to 1946, during the presidency of Gualberto Villarroel.

  32. Elías Blanco Mamani

    Elías Blanco Mamani
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1962-.. (age 62)
    Occupations
    writerjournalist
    Biography

    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.

  33. Belisario Salinas

    Belisario Salinas
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1833-1893 (aged 60)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    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.

  34. Héctor Enrique Arcé Zaconeta

    Héctor Enrique Arcé Zaconeta
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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

  35. Roberto Ivan Aguilar Gomez

    Roberto Ivan Aguilar Gomez
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    economistpolitician
    Biography

    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.

  36. Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

    Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    botanistethnobotanist
    Biography

    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.

  37. Arturo von Vacano

    Arturo von Vacano
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1938-2019 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    writerjournalist
    Biography

    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.