Gabriela Montaño

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Gabriela Montaño Viaña
Eugenio Rojas Apaza [es]
Senator for Santa Cruz
In office
22 January 2012 – 22 January 2015
Personal details
Born
Lilly Gabriela Montaño Viaña

(1972-12-02) 2 December 1972 (age 51)
MAS-IPSP
EducationMaster's Degree in Public Health[1]
OccupationPolitician, physician

Lilly Gabriela Montaño Viaña (born 2 December 1975) is a Bolivian physician, politician, and former

Argentine citizen Fabián Restivo, with whom she has had two daughters.[3]

Biography

Lilly Gabriela Montaño Viaña was born 2 December 1972 in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba. She completed her basic studies in 1993 at the age of 18 and graduated with a degree in medicine five years later. She subsequently pursued and obtained a degree in public health.[4]

During the first term of

Senator for the Department of Santa Cruz
for the 2010–2015 term.

In the General Election of 2014, Montaño was elected Deputy for the Department of Santa Cruz and in 2015 elected as President of Chamber of Deputies for the 2015–2020 term.[6] In this term, she has argued for the expansion of the legal causes for abortion.[7]

On 10 October 2017, Montaño and Alberto Gonzales, President of the Senate, met with various journalists' unions and concluded a rewrite of Article 200, a legislative action that would penalize professionals for poor performance, that guaranteed the safety of journalists from legal persecution via criminal prosecution.[8][9][10]

In January 2019, she was named at the Ministry of Health. On 14 November 2019, she fled to Mexico with

resignation.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ a b "LILLY GABRIELA MONTAÑO VIAÑA". vicepresidencia.gob.bo (in Spanish). Office of the Vice President of Bolivia. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  2. ^ Corz, Carlos (23 September 2012). "Montaño asume la Presidencia interina de Bolivia, Evo va a la ONU y hablará del mar". La Razón (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  3. ^ "El lado desconocido de Gabriela Montaño". eju! (in Spanish). 28 August 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  4. ^ "Lilly Gabriela Montaño Viaña". El Diario (in Spanish). 7 August 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Gabriela Montaño: la cruceña que batalla por Evo". Erbol Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  6. ^ "Posesionan a Gabriela Montaño como presidente de la Cámara de Diputados". Pagina Siete (in Spanish). 19 January 2015. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Gabriela Montaño: "Al año mueren 500 mujeres por aborto. Es una hecatombe"". Pagina Siete (in Spanish). 9 April 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  8. ^ "Bolivian lawmakers exclude journalists from legislative article penalizing poor professional practice". Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  9. ^ "Gremios y Legislativo excluyen a periodistas del artículo que castiga la mala praxis". Agencia de Noticias Fides (in Spanish). 10 October 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  10. ^ Guarachi, Ángel (10 October 2017). "Legislativo ajusta texto del Código Penal y excluye a periodistas del delito de 'mala práctica profesional'". La Razon (in Spanish). La Paz. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  11. ^ "Montaño renuncia al cargo de Ministra de Salud". www.paginasiete.bo (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  12. ^ Arellano García, César; Langner, Ana (12 November 2019). "Esperan llegada de Evo esta mañana, tras escala en Paraguay". La Jornada (in Spanish).

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