Jaime Medrano
Jaime Medrano | |
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In office 19 January 2010 – 18 January 2015 | |
Substitute | Guillermina Astete |
Preceded by | Heriberto Lázaro |
Succeeded by | Eleuterio Huallpa[α] |
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Born | Jaime Medrano Veizaga 21 October 1971 Movement for Socialism |
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Jaime Medrano Veizaga (born 21 October 1971) is a Bolivian mineworker and politician who served as a member of the
Early life and career
Jaime Medrano was born on 21 October 1971 in
Starting in 1997, Medrano returned to Oruro as a temporary worker for the Huanuni Mining Corporation. He entered a salaried contract three years later and, after completing courses in industrial safety and environmental protection, was promoted to industrial safety inspector, the highest position most regular workmen could attain.[3][4] Medrano held the post between 2005 and 2006,[2] a period coinciding with the start of the first Evo Morales administration, whose government, from its inception, aligned itself with the mining sector.[5] Though this fact generated support for Morales from among Huanuni's cooperative and salaried workers alike,[β] the latter group consistently criticized the government for its preferential treatment of cooperative miners.[7] For Medrano—a salaried worker—bad blood with the increasingly assertive cooperativists resulted in his suspension from his position, relegated to lower-level mining work in his unit. As the animosity between the two groups worsened, he even suffered a beating from cooperative miners at one point.[1] The eventual armed conflict between cooperativist and salaried miners "marked [Medrano's] life" and realigned the government in favor of company workers.[8][9]
Chamber of Deputies
Election
In the ensuing years, Medrano continued as a sectional leader in the Huanuni mines, serving as a delegate for one of the company's thirty-two sectors.
Tenure
Throughout all five years of his term, Medrano served as a member of the Mining and Metallurgy Committee, leading the body as its secretary in his final year.[11][12][13] As head of the committee, Medrano oversaw the process of amending, revising, and ultimately passing a new mining law that expanded the government's control over the industry.[14][15] Though originally drafted with input from representatives of all three mining sectors—cooperative, private, and state—the law was later opposed by cooperativists, who protested the omission of an article granting them the right to freely associate and sign contracts with local or foreign private companies. Medrano argued that the provision had been removed because it was in violation of the Constitution, which states that only the government may sign contracts with mining operators.[14][16]
Upon the conclusion of his term, Medrano was not nominated for reelection, a common practice among the Movement for Socialism, which preferred to open up spaces for different representatives of allied sectors to enter parliament.[17] Though Medrano's political career ended there, the salaried mineworkers he represented—as well as their cooperative counterparts—maintained their presence in the legislature, part of the ruling party's efforts to make space for both groups on its parliamentary lists.[18]
Electoral history
Year | Office | Party | Votes | Result | Ref. | |||
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Total | % | P. | ||||||
2009 | Deputy | Movement for Socialism
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23,021 | 86.22% | 1st | Won | [19] | |
Source: Plurinational Electoral Organ | Electoral Atlas |
References
Notes
- ^ Redistribution; circumscription 31.
- ^ Mineworkers in Huanuni are classified into two main groups: roughly 800 salaried or "regular" union workers contracted by the Huanuni Mining Corporation and approximately 4,000 cooperative workers holding membership in one of four primary cooperatives.[6]
Footnotes
- ^ a b Gonzales Salas 2013, p. 243
- ^ a b c Romero Ballivián 2018, p. 363
- ^ Gonzales Salas 2013, pp. 243–244
- ^ Vargas & Villavicencio 2014, p. 100
- ^ Ruiz Arrieta 2008, p. 6
- ^ Ruiz Arrieta 2008, p. 5
- ^ Staff writer (6 October 2006). Written at La Paz. "Nueve muertos y 40 heridos en un enfrentamiento 'armado' entre dos grupos de mineros en Bolivia". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid. EFE. Archived from the original on 3 November 2006. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
- ^ Ruiz Arrieta 2008, pp. 15–16
- ^ a b c Gonzales Salas 2013, p. 244
- ^ "Candidato masista es virtual diputado en la Circunscripción 36". La Patria (in Spanish). Oruro. 30 November 2009. Archived from the original on 26 October 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ Vargas & Villavicencio 2014, pp. 100, 308–318
- ^ "Comisiones y Comités: Periodo Legislativo 2011–2012". diputados.bo (in Spanish). La Paz: Chamber of Deputies. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ "Comisiones y Comités: Periodo Legislativo 2012–2013". diputados.bo (in Spanish). Chamber of Deputies. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ a b Mamani, Lidia (28 March 2014). "El artículo 151 del proyecto de ley minera rompe el consenso". Página Siete (in Spanish). La Paz. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ Staff writer (28 May 2014). Written at La Paz. "Bolivia promulga nueva ley minera". Reuters (in Spanish). London. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ "Diputado Jaime Medrano: Ley minera debe enmarcarse en la Constitución". La Patria (in Spanish). Oruro. 14 January 2014. p. 4. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ Romero Ballivián 2018, pp. 320, 363
- ^ Romero Ballivián 2018, p. 387
- ^ "Elecciones Generales 2009 | Atlas Electoral". atlaselectoral.oep.org.bo (in Spanish). La Paz: Plurinational Electoral Organ. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
Bibliography
- Gonzales Salas, Inés, ed. (2013). Biografías: Historias de Vida en la Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Internacional para la Democracia y la Asistencia Electoral; OCLC 876429743.
- OCLC 1050945993 – via ResearchGate.
- Ruiz Arrieta, Gloria (2008). "Octubre Negro" en Huanuni, Bolivia: Desaparición de las Cooperativas y Reestructuración de la Empresa Minera Huanuni. Representaciones, Experiencias y Prácticas de los Mineros (PDF) (in Spanish). Posadas: IX Congreso Argentino de Antropología Social. Universidad Nacional de Misiones Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. pp. 4–7.
- Vargas, María Elena; Villavicencio, Jois, eds. (2014). Primera Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional de Bolivia, Cámara de Diputados: Diccionario Biográfico, Diputadas y Diputados Titulares y Suplentes 2010–2015 (in Spanish). La Paz: OCLC 961105285– via Calaméo.
External links
- Parliamentary profile Office of the Vice President (in Spanish).