Savina Cuéllar Leaños (born 30 January 1963) is a Bolivian politician who formerly as governor of the Department of Chuquisaca defeating Walter Valda. She is of

Quechua Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language ...

ancestry and one of the leading oppositionists to president

Evo Morales Juan Evo Morales Ayma (; born 26 October 1959) is a Bolivian politician, trade union organizer, and former cocalero activist who served as the 65th president of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019. Widely regarded as the country's first president to come ...

.Gobierno boliviano reconoce el triunfo de Savina Cuéllar
/ref> 2006 she joined the Bolivian Constituent Assembly of 2006-2007 as an

-supporter but changed sides over the question of whether

Sucre Sucre (; ) is the ''de jure'' capital city of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and the sixth most populous city in Bolivia. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of . This relatively high ...

La Paz La Paz, officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Aymara language, Aymara: Chuqi Yapu ), is the seat of government of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia. With 755,732 residents as of 2024, La Paz is the List of Bolivian cities by populati ...

should be the capital of the country.
Miguel Centellas (2010): Savina Cuéllar and Bolivia's New Regionalism. In: Latin American Perspectives 37 (4).

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