Federico Álvarez Plata

Federico Álvarez Plata (born June 4, 1916 in Chulumani , † 2003 in La Paz ) was a Bolivian politician.

Life

Federico Álvarez Plata was the son of Ninfa Centellas and Eloy Álvarez Plata (born June 5, 1884 in Chirca, Municipio Chulumani ; † 1929) a farmer who devoted himself to coca cultivation , member of the Partido Republicano, vice-president of the Cámara de diputados and mayor of La Paz was. Federico Álvarez Plata and his brothers formed an influential clan within the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR). Vicente Àlvarez Plata (* 1926, † 1959) was Ministro de Asuntos Campesinos (Minister of Agriculture) from 1956 and died in a dispute between various farmer factions of the MNR on the Altiplano of the La Paz Department . His brother Jorge Álvarez Plata (* 1920 La Paz; † 1980 in Laja ) was a member of the Unión Democrática y Popular and died in a plane accident with other heads of the UDP.

Federico Álvarez Plata married Marina Pinto Tellería. Her son Federico was also a member of the Unión Democrática y Popular (UDP). Federico Alvarez took part in the Chaco War.

Federico Alvarez Plata completed his law studies at the Mayor de San Andrés University in La Paz in 1942 and joined the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) in 1943 . He was head of the youth organization of the MNR and headed the La Paz section of the MNR. After handing over power to Gualberto Villarroel López in 1943, Federico Álvarez Plata was elected to parliament in 1944.

He took part in the clashes of the MNR against the conservative governments, was persecuted and imprisoned in Ulla Ulla ( Franz Tamayo Province ) in 1946 and in Guayaramerín in 1948 . From 1946 he was chairman of the Comitee Politico del MNR.

In 1947 he was elected to parliament for the Sud Yungas province . In 1949 he went into exile in Argentina. In 1951 he was also elected, but the election was not recognized by the Mamerto Urriolagoitia Harriague government. From December 1950 to 1956 he was Secretario Ejecutivo (Executive Secretary General) of the MNR. From April 16, 1952 to June 17, 1956, in the government of Víctor Paz Estenssoro , he was Ministro de Economía nacional (Minister of Economics) until 1954 and then Minister of Education.

In 1956 he was sent to the Senate for the La Paz Department. In 1957, with the support of a faction of the MNR around Hernán Siles Zuazo , he replaced Juan Lechín Oquendo as Senate President and thus initiated the start of dismantling the wing of the miners' union within the MNR.

In 1960 and 1964 was again sent to the Senate. In December 1960 he represented the Bolivian government at the UN headquarters and visited Israel for 10 days . In 1961 he visited Beijing .

From 1963 to 1966 he was the Bolivian ambassador in Bonn . During the military dictatorship he went to Buenos Aires, where he joined the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria with Hernán Siles Zuazo .

In 1980 he inherited a seat of the Unión Democrática y Popular in the Senate from his brother Jorge . From 1983 to March 1985 he was Minister of the Interior .

literature

• Salvador Romero Ballivián: Diccionario biográfico de parlamentarios 1979–2009. FUNDAPPAC / Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, La Paz / Bonn 2009, p. 11 f. ( online ; PDF; 2.19 MB).

predecessor	Office	successor
Luis Peñaloza Cordero	Secretario Ejecutivo del Comité Político Nacional del MNR (Executive Secretary of the MNR) 1950 to 1956	Felix Trigo December 28, 1971 to May 15, 1973: Carlos Sánchez Berzain Adrián Berrenechea Torres
Guillermo Alborta Velasco	Bolivian ambassador in Bonn from 1963 to 1966	Gustavo Chacón Sanchez
Mario Roncal Antezana	Interior Minister of Bolivia 1983 to March 1985	Gustavo Sánchez Salazar