Everything about Jorge Quiroga totally explained
Jorge Fernando
"Tuto" Quiroga Ramírez (born
May 5,
1960) was President of
Bolivia from
August 7,
2001 to
August 6,
2002. He is seen as politically conservative. He is a 1981 graduate of
Texas A&M University, with a degree in
industrial engineering, becoming the first Aggie head of state. He went on to be a self-declared "corporate yuppie" working for
I.B.M. in
Austin, Texas.
He and his American wife, Virginia then moved back to Bolivia.
Quiroga was elected vice president of Bolivia in 1997 running on the
Nationalist Democratic Action ticket with former dictator
Hugo Banzer. At 37, he was the youngest vice president in Bolivia's history. He became President when Banzer resigned because of aggravated health problems (he died a year following his resignation). Quiroga assumed office as acting president on
July 1,
2001 and was sworn-in on
August 7, to complete Banzer's five-year mandate.
Soon after becoming President he told a reporter from the
New Yorker "We [Bolivia] will be the vital heart of South America." Believing that gas exports would lift the economy, that a long anticipated transcontinental highway connecting Brazil to Chile would be built passing through the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, and that
fibre-optic cables would soon be laid.
He blamed Bolivia’s lack of economic progress on hypocrisy on free trade in the United States and Europe, saying "Bolivia is the most open economy in Latin America. Meanwhile, American and European farm subsidies, along with tariffs on textiles and agricultural products, make it impossible for Bolivia to sell its exports in the Global North. They tell us to be competitive while tying our arms behind our backs."
When asked about the
Bolivian Water Wars of 2000, he said “A lot of things certainly could have been different along the way, from a lot of different actors. The net effect is that we've a city today with no resolution to the water problem. In the end it'll be necessary to bring in private investment to develop the water."
Quiroga ran for President in his own right in
2005 election, as the candidate for a new right-of-center coalition known as
Social and Democratic Power (PODEMOS), which included the bulk of Banzer's former ADN organization. His main opponent was the leftist
Evo Morales of the
Movement Towards Socialism. Morales won the election and Quiroga finished a distant second place, receiving 28.6% of the vote.
Quiroga was born in
Cochabamba. He holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from
Texas A&M and a master's degree in business administration from
St. Edward's University. He has also received the World Leader of Tomorrow Award from the
World Economic Forum in
Davos,
Switzerland. He has worked for
IBM and as a consultant for the
World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund.
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