Néstor Guzman Villarroel (born February 26, 1964, in Chaguarmayu) is a

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Biography

A tailor and farmer by profession, he became the press and propaganda secretary of the trade union in Chaguarmayu in 1984, then becoming the relations secretary of the Chaguarmayu trade union the following year. Between 1986 and 1988, he was the general secretary of the Panamá trade union sub-centre, then becoming the general secretary of the Aiquile-Campero Provincial Trade Union Centre. Between 1995 and 1997, he was secretary of tracts of the Federación Unica de Trabajadores Campesinos de Cochabamba (FUTCCBA).''Directorio: 1997 - 2002''. La Paz: Centro de Investigación del Congreso Nacional (CICON), 2002. p. 111 In 1997, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, as the United Left (IU) candidate in the single-member constituency No. 29 (which covers areas of the Campero and Arani provinces). Roberto Céspedes Franco was his alternate. In the 2005 parliamentary election, Guzmán Villarroel topped the

Indigenous Pachakuti Movement The Pachakuti Indigenous Movement (Spanish: ''Movimiento Indígena Pachakuti'') was an indigenist political party in Bolivia founded in November 2000. At the legislative elections in 2002, the party won 2.2% of the popular vote and 6 out of 13 ...

(MIP) list for the proportional representation vote in Cochabamba.

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1964 births Bolivian trade union leaders Living people Pachakuti Indigenous Movement politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Bolivia) United Left (Bolivia) politicians Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples politicians {{bolivia-politician-stub