Worldwide Guide to Women in
Leadership
Female Leaders of
Parties of Bolivia (Female
suffrage 1952)
1979-94 President of Partido Revolucionario
de los Izquierda Nazional Gueiler Lidia Gueiler Tejada
Commander in the National Revolutionary Force and the only female head of a
battalion in 1952, Subsecretary for Agriculture around 1978, President of Camera de Diputados
1978-79, President of the Congress (and Vice-President of the Republic)
1979 (Aug.-Nov.) President and Head of the Cabinet 1979-80, exile in France 1980-82, Ambassador
in Embassy to West Gemany 1982-83, and to Venezuela 1983-86 and since 1993.
She was deposed by the 129th Coup d'Etat in the history of Bolivia,
shortly before elections was due. (b. 1921-)
2002-06 Parliamentary Leader in the Senate of the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario Moira Paz Estenssoro Cortez
2002- Parliamentary Leader in the Chamber of Deputies of the Movimiento
Nacionalista
Martha Carla Humérez Ruis
Ca. 2005- Leader of the Movimiento Nacionalista
Revolucionario Mirtha Quevedo
Acalinovic
Former Minister and President of the Senate
2002-03
2006- President of the Social Democratic Force Adriana Gil
Last update 13.06.06