Álvaro García Linera Explained

Álvaro García Linera
Order:38th
Office:Vice President of Bolivia
President:Evo Morales
Term Start:22 January 2006
Term End:10 November 2019
Predecessor:Carlos Mesa
Successor:David Choquehuanca
Birth Date:1962 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Cochabamba, Bolivia
Party:Movement for Socialism
Parents:Raúl García Suárez
Mary Linera Pareja
Spouse:
    Children:Alba
    Signature:Firma de Álvaro García Linera.svg

    Álvaro Marcelo García Linera (pronounced as /es/; born 19 October 1962) is a Bolivian politician, sociologist, Marxist theoretician, and former guerilla who served as the 38th vice president of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019. A member of the Movement for Socialism, in the early 1990s he was a leader of the Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army.

    Political career

    In the early 1990s, García Linera was the leader of the Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army. In 1992, he was accused of armed uprising and arrested along with several other insurgents. He was released in 1997.[1]

    García was elected vice president as the running mate of Evo Morales in the 2005 presidential elections.He is an advocate of nationalization of Bolivia's hydrocarbon industry. In 2005 interview, he said that hydrocarbons "would be the second unifying factor of this society in October, 2003" and that "the debates over hydrocarbons are playing with the destiny of Bolivia."[2] García wrote a monograph about the different political and social organizations that were a part of the political rise of the MAS and other indigenous factions, Sociología de los Movimientos Sociales en Bolivia (Sociology of Social Movements in Bolivia), which was published in 2005.[3] Morales and Linera were both re-elected in the 2009 presidential elections.

    In December 2010, Linera posted the cables mentioning Bolivia from the website WikiLeaks, which leaks information from classified sources and whistleblowers, on his official page. Linera said linking this negative information was intended to allow people to see “barbarities and insults” in Washington and to expose their "interventionist infiltration."[4] [5] [6] García Linera has defended the Law of the Rights of Mother Earth, saying that it is not intended as a means to hamper industrial development or mineral extraction. Private miners have disagreed with this stance, suggesting that the law allows the government to expropriate their operations without providing compensation and that it signals Bolivia is hostile to foreign investment.[7]

    García Linera had indicated his intention of leaving politics for teaching and writing in 2014, at the end of his term.[8] However, he chose to run for re-election and was re-elected to a third term in 2014.

    Linera ran as Morales' vice-president for a fourth time in October 2019. However, on 10 November 2019 he resigned with President Evo Morales following the 2019 Bolivian protests.[9] He left Bolivia and travelled to Mexico together with Morales.[10]

    In November 2020, he returned to Bolivia after the socialists returned to power and Luis Arce was sworn in as new President of Bolivia.[11]

    Controversy

    In 2016, it was publicly denounced that Linera falsified his university degree and passed himself off as a Licenciado (a degree similar to B.A. in the American system).[12] [13] In 2018, it was asked to the Prosecutor office to investigate Linera for this fact.[14] [15] Other complaints claim that Linera did not even have a high school diploma.[16]

    Personal life

    On 8 March 2012, García Linera publicly confirmed his engagement to Claudia Fernández Valdivia, a news anchor with Bolivian television station Red Uno.[8] They were married in September 2012, holding an indigenous ceremony on Saturday the 8th and a Catholic one on Sunday the 9th.[17] [18]

    Selected list of written works

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: El marxista que halló su cable a tierra - La Razón. www.la-razon.com.
    2. News: Webber. Jeffery R.. Marxism and Indigenism in Bolivia: A Dialectic of Dialogue and Conflict. 3 December 2012. ZCommunications. 25 April 2005.
    3. Garcia Linera, Alvaro. Sociología de los Movimientos Sociales en Bolivia. La Paz: Plural, 2005.
    4. News: Bolivian VP Posts WikiLeaks Cables on his Website. 21 November 2012. Fox News Latino. 8 December 2010.
    5. Web site: Wikileaks - Vicepresidencia. wikileaks.vicepresidencia.gob.bo.
    6. News: Documentos revelados por Wikileaks ratifican un gobierno imperial, intervencionista y abusivo: García Linera. 21 November 2012. FM Bolivia. 30 November 2010.
    7. Web site: Achtenberg. Emily. Earth First?. Knowledge Beyond Borders. NACLA. 20 November 2012.
    8. Web site: El vicepresidente García confirma su proxima boda e insinúa su retiro de la politica para el 2014 - La Razón. www.la-razon.com.
    9. Web site: Dimite también el vicepresidente de Bolivia, Álvaro García Linera. 10 November 2019. www.eluniversal.com.co.
    10. Web site: Morales arrives in Mexico as Bolivia senate seeks to name interim president. CNA. en. 4 December 2019.
    11. Web site: Former Bolivian VP Álvaro García Linera on How Socialists Can Win . jacobinmag.com.
    12. Web site: Cédula de García Linera afirma que es licenciado. es.
    13. Web site: García Linera firmó como licenciado sin tener ese título académico. 5 May 2016 . es.
    14. Web site: Piden investigar al Vicepresidente por título falso. es.
    15. Web site: García Linera solo estudió dos años en la UNAM de México. es.
    16. Web site: Titular en La Razón: Linera no tiene título de profesional y tampoco de bachiller. es.
    17. Web site: La Pachamama los bendijo . www.laprensa.com.bo . 17 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131203033536/http://www.laprensa.com.bo/diario/entretendencias/escena/20120909/la-pachamama-los-bendijo_33473_53530.html . 3 December 2013 . dead.
    18. Web site: Fotos El vicepresidente y Claudia Fernández unieron sus vidas en la Basílica de San Francisco | Alvaro Garcia Linera y Claudia Fernandez. 9 September 2012.
    19. Madrid: Lengua de Trapo QUÉ HORIZONTE. HEGEMONÍA, ESTADO Y REVOLUCIÓN DEMOCRÁTICA.
    20. https://brill.com/view/title/24311 Plebeian Power Collective Action and Indigenous, Working-Class and Popular Identities in Bolivia

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