Carlos Fernando Huallpa Sunaga (born 1976) is a Bolivian miner, union leader, and politician who served as Minister of Mining and Metallurgy from 2019 to 2020 during the interim government of

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Biography

Carlos Huallpa was born in 1976 in

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. He was raised in a family of five children and was the son of a miner working at the

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. In 1995, Huallpa served

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in the

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. After this, he returned to Potosí and worked as a miner, finishing high school in 2002, and later becoming a mining leader of the Departmental Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Potosí. During the

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, Huallpa organized a march from Potosí to

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to demand the resignation of President

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. A demand achieved on 10 November.

Minister of Mining and Metallurgy (2019–2020)

On 18 November 2019, interim President Jeanine Áñez appointed Huallpa Minister of Mining and Metallurgy. He remained in the position until 8 May 2020 when he resigned ostensibly due to health issues and personal problems. However, on 5 October Huallpa claimed in an interview that he was made to resign and that he had received pressure to appoint positions in state mining institutions.

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