Jorge Quiroga
Jorge Quiroga | |
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 Official portrait by Antonio Suárez, 2001 | |
| 62nd President of Bolivia | |
| In office 7 August 2001 – 6 August 2002 Acting: 1 July 2001 – 7 August 2001 | |
| Vice President | Vacant |
| Preceded by | Hugo Banzer |
| Succeeded by | Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada |
| 36th Vice President of Bolivia | |
| In office 6 August 1997 – 7 August 2001 | |
| President | Hugo Banzer |
| Preceded by | Víctor Hugo Cárdenas |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Mesa |
| Minister of Finance | |
| In office 17 March 1992 – 12 November 1992 | |
| President | Jaime Paz Zamora |
| Preceded by | David Blanco Zabala |
| Succeeded by | Juan Pablo Zegarra |
| Bolivia's international delegate to denounce human rights violations | |
| In office 2 December 2019 – 8 January 2020 | |
| President | Jeanine Áñez |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jorge Fernando Arturo Quiroga Ramírez 5 May 1960 Cochabamba, Bolivia |
| Political party | Libre 21 (2020–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Nationalist Democratic Action (before 2005) Social Democratic Power (2005–2009) Christian Democratic Party (2014–2018) |
| Spouse | Virginia Gillum |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Texas A&M University St. Edward's University |
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Jorge Fernando Tuto Quiroga Ramírez (born 5 May 1960) is a Bolivian industrial engineer and politician who served as the 62nd president of Bolivia from 2001 to 2002. A former member of Nationalist Democratic Action, he previously served as the 36th vice president of Bolivia from 1997 to 2001 under Hugo Banzer and as minister of finance under Jaime Paz Zamora in 1992. During the interim government of Jeanine Áñez, he was briefly appointed from 2019 to 2020 as the country's international spokesperson to denounce alleged human rights violations by the previous government.
Quiroga was a candidate in the
Background and early life
Quiroga was born in Cochabamba. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 1981 with a degree in industrial engineering, becoming the first head of state from that university.[2] He went on to work for IBM in Austin, Texas[2] while earning a master's degree in business administration from St. Edward's University. He and his American wife Virginia then moved back to Bolivia.[2] He has 4 children: Vanessa Elena, Cristina Andrea, Adriana Patricia and Jorge Cristian.
Vice President of Bolivia (1997–2001)
Quiroga was
President of Bolivia (2001–2002)
He became president when Banzer resigned because of aggravated health problems (he died a year following his resignation). Quiroga assumed office as acting president on 1 July 2001 and was sworn in on 7 August, to complete Banzer's five-year mandate.
Soon after becoming president he told a reporter from the
Post-presidency (2002–present)
Quiroga ran for president in his own right in the
He has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In 2002, he was honored in a tribute exhibit at his alma mater, Texas A&M University.[5] He is, as of November 2016, active in the private sector and many international organizations, among them: as vice-president of Club de Madrid with almost 100 former heads of state and government; on the board of Results for Development-R4D in Washington D.C.; as a member of the Inter-American Dialogue and the International Advisory Council of the China Economic Club; and in different capacities on the Global Adaptation Institute, the Foro Iberoamericano and many others.[6] He has presided FUNDEMOS since 2002, a Bolivian public policy foundation. His areas of expertise are: management of international aid and cooperation for developing countries; macroeconomic policy; constitutional, legal and institutional reforms; private and official external debt restructuring and relief; programs to reduce drug trafficking and cocaine production; and broadly in Latin American public policy, trade, economics, finance and banking, integration, politics and development issues.[6]
He was appointed as vice president of the
On 2 December 2019, the interim government of
He currently holds the role of a senior advisor at New Direction, a think tank affiliated with the European Conservatives and Reformists Party in the European Parliament.[11]
He supports far-right candidate Javier Milei in 2023 Argentine general election.[12]
See also
References
- ^ "A una semana de las elecciones, Tuto Quiroga declina su candidatura a la presidencia". Los Tiempos. 11 October 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f William Finnegan (8 April 2002). "Leasing The Rain". The New Yorker. Retrieved on Feb. 15, 2007
- ^ "Globalisation and the reform of the Bolivian state, 1985-2005" (PDF). CORE.
- ^ "Vicepresidencia". www.vicepresidencia.gob.bo. Archived from the original on 16 April 2009. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ "Tribute Exhibit". www.aggienetwork.com. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ a b "President Jorge Quiroga | One Young World". www.oneyoungworld.com. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ "Tuto Quiroga elegido 'vice' del club de madrid". El Día. 30 November 2001. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- ^ Bolivia, Opinión (2 December 2019). "Añez designa a Tuto como delegado internacional por los DDHH". Opinión Bolivia (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- ^ "Tuto renuncia al cargo de delegado presidencial ante instancias internacionales". Correo del Sur (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 February 2022.
- ^ "Quiroga, Ex-President of Bolivia, Drops Out of Race - Communal News". Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- ^ "About". New Direction. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ^ "El Nobel Vargas Llosa y los expresidentes Rajoy, Duque y Piñera piden el voto para el ultraderechista Milei en Argentina". 12 November 2023.
External links
- Jorge Quiroga at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs(CIDOB) (in Spanish)
- Member profile at The Dialogue
- Profile at the BBC
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- Bolivia's Precarious Upcoming Election-Council on Hemispheric Affairs Archived 20 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
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