Alvaro Garcia Linera (19 October 1962-) was Vice President of Bolivia from 22 January 2006 to 10 November 2019, succeeding Carlos Mesa.
Biography[]
Alvaro Garcia Linera was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia on 19 October 1962, and he led the indigenist Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army rebel group during the early 1990s; he was imprisoned from 1992 to 1997. In 2005, he was elected Vice President as Evo Morales' running mate, and he supported the nationalization of the hydrocarbon industry and opposed foreign investment. On 10 November 2019, he and President Morales resigned during the 2019 Bolivian coup d'etat.