Zacarías Colque Explained

Zacarías Colque
1Namedata:Eunecia López
Term Start:18 January 2015
Term End:3 November 2020
Predecessor:Richard Cordel
Successor:Gladys Chumacero
Birth Name:Zacarías Colque Matías
Birth Date:8 February 1967
Birth Place:Caripuyo, Potosí, Bolivia
Party:Movement for Socialism

Zacarías Colque Matías (8 February 1967 – 24 September 2022) was a Bolivian agricultural worker, politician, and trade unionist who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from Potosí, representing circumscription 38 from 2015 to 2020. A member of the Movement for Socialism, Colque built his career in northern Potosí's rural trade syndicates. The party's long-established alliance with the agrarian sector facilitated Colque's entry into politics, first as a member of the Caripuyo Municipal Council and much later as a parliamentarian.

Early life and career

Zacarías Colque was born on 8 February 1967 in Caripuyo, a rural locality situated in the Alonso de Ibáñez Province of northern Potosí,[1] one of the most isolated and least economically developed regions in the country,[2] home to the nation's most impoverished municipality: the very same Caripuyo.[3] An ethnic Quechua, Colque spent his early life in rural poverty, making a living as an agricultural worker before becoming active in the regional's peasant labor movement.

Colque progressively climbed the ranks of northern Potosí's agrarian trade syndicates, starting at the local level as general secretary of a small union in, then at the municipal as executive secretary of Caripuyo's sectional workers' center. These positions opened the door to more prominent roles, and he topped off his union career as executive secretary of the Unified Syndical Federation of Native Workers of Northern Potosí.[4]

Chamber of Deputies

Election

As a leader in Potosí's agrarian syndicates, Colque represented a confluence of social movements: organized labor first and foremost, but also the peasantry, as well as the indigenous movement. The organic alliance between these three groups with the nascent Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP) facilitated Colque's entry into politics.[5] Having served as president of the MAS's branch in Caripuyo, he achieved his first elective position locally, serving as a member and eventual president of the Caripuyo Municipal Council.

Absent from ensuing election cycles, Colque returned to the political scene in 2014, with his nomination for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. He ran to represent the MAS in Potosí's circumscription 38, encompassing the department's northern provinces. In one of the bastions of electoral support for the party, Colque won without any significant competition.

Tenure

In office, Colque focused his parliamentary term on indigenous matters, supporting projects to recognize and promote native culture[6] and occupying positions on committees related to the topic. He held a seat on the Planning Commission's Indigenous Jurisdiction Committee and chaired both the Indigenous Peoples and Nations Committee and the Cultures Committee, the former for two terms and the latter for one.[7] As with the vast majority of legislators who entered parliament in representation of MAS-aligned groups, Colque was not nominated for reelection, reflecting the party's practice of renewing its electoral lists to make way for new leaders from allied social sectors.[8] He died shortly after leaving office, on 24 September 2022.[9]

Commission assignments

Electoral history

Year! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2
OfficePartyVotesResult.
Total%.
2004Sub. CouncillorMovement for Socialism2,35891.83%1st[15]
2014DeputyMovement for Socialism25,95471.98%1st[16]
Source: Plurinational Electoral Organ Electoral Atlas

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2022-07-28 . Padrón electoral biométrico y militancia: Zacarías Colque Matías . 2023-02-09 . yoparticipo.oep.org.bo . . es . La Paz.
  2. News: Smink . Veronica . 2015-07-30 . Bolivia y la paradoja de Potosí: El departamento más rico con la población más pobre . es . . London . live . 2023-02-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150801225727/https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2015/07/150728_america_latina_bolivia_potosi_paradoja_vs . 2015-08-01.
  3. News: Chávez . Franz . 2004-12-17 . Bolivia: Children under threat . en . . La Paz . Rome . live . 2023-02-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230209081936/https://www.ipsnews.net/2004/12/bolivia-children-under-threat/ . 2023-02-09.
  4. Web site: Zacarías Colque Matías . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20191022170208/https://www.vicepresidencia.gob.bo/spip.php?page=parlamentario&id_parlamentario=675 . 2019-10-22 . 2023-02-09 . vicepresidencia.gob.bo . . es . La Paz.
  5. News: do Alto . Hervé . 2011 . Un partido campesino en el poder. Una mirada sociológica del MAS boliviano . es . Nueva Sociedad . 234 . live . 2023-02-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200724213944/https://nuso.org/articulo/un-partido-campesino-en-el-poder-una-mirada-sociologica-del-mas-boliviano/ . 2020-07-24.
  6. 1127968156729970688. Diputados_Bol. La Cancillería de Bolivia realiza el evento 'Año Internacional de las Lenguas Indígenas'. Chamber of Deputies. 2019-05-13. 2023-02-09. es. La Paz. https://web.archive.org/web/20201019035209/https://twitter.com/Diputados_Bol/status/1127968156729970688. 2020-10-19. live.
  7. For citations, see § Commission assignments.
  8. Web site: 2019 . Lista Final de Candidaturas Habilitadas de las Organizaciones Políticas y Alianzas: Movimiento al Socialismo . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220301191539/https://www.oep.org.bo/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Candidaturas_Finales_MAS_IPSP_EG_2019.pdf . 2022-03-01 . 2022-12-20 . oep.org.bo . . es . La Paz.
  9. Web site: . 26 September 2022 . Q.E.P.D. Zacarías Colque Matías . es . La Paz . live . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/vJ7cu . 13 August 2023 . 13 August 2023 . Facebook.
  10. Web site: 2015-01-29 . La Cámara de Diputados conformó sus 12 Comisiones y 37 Comités: Gestión Legislativa 2015–2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150717014503/http://www.diputados.bo:80/index.php/noticias/actualidad-legislativa/1646-diputados-conformaron-sus-comisiones-y-comites . 2015-07-17 . 2022-11-22 . diputados.bo . . es . La Paz.
  11. Web site: 2018-02-01 . La Cámara de Diputados conformó sus 12 Comisiones y 37 Comités: Gestión Legislativa 2018–2019 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180214145500/http://www.diputados.bo:80/prensa/noticias/pese-las-pugnas-en-la-oposici%C3%B3n-la-c%C3%A1mara-de-diputados-conform%C3%B3-sus-12-comisiones-y . 2018-02-14 . 2022-11-22 . diputados.bo . . es . La Paz.
  12. 692461221979750403. Diputados_Bol. La Cámara de Diputados conformó sus 12 Comisiones y 37 Comités: Gestión Legislativa 2016–2017. Chamber of Deputies. 2016-01-27. 2022-11-22. es. La Paz. https://web.archive.org/web/20221123072958/https://twitter.com/Diputados_Bol/status/692461221979750403. 2022-11-23. live.
  13. Web site: 2019-01-24 . La Cámara de Diputados conformó sus 12 Comisiones y 37 Comités: Gestión Legislativa 2019–2020 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190128050536/http://www.diputados.bo:80/prensa/noticias/diputados-definen-conformaci%C3%B3n-de-comisiones-y-comit%C3%A9s-2019-2020-pese-pugnas-en-la . 2019-01-28 . 2022-11-22 . diptuados.bo . . es . La Paz.
  14. 826588912852271104. Diputados_Bol. La Cámara de Diputados conformó sus 12 Comisiones y 37 Comités: Gestión Legislativa 2017–2018. Chamber of Deputies. 2017-01-31. 2022-11-22. es. La Paz. https://web.archive.org/web/20221123084029/https://twitter.com/Diputados_Bol/status/826588912852271104. 2022-11-23. live.
  15. Web site: Elecciones Municipales 2004 Atlas Electoral . 5 June 2022 . atlaselectoral.oep.org.bo . . es . La Paz.
  16. Web site: Elecciones Generales 2014 Atlas Electoral . live . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/3THVm . 2023-02-09 . 20 September 2022 . atlaselectoral.oep.org.bo . . es . La Paz.

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