Abelardo Villalpando Retamozo was a Bolivian politician. Villalpando Retamozo was born in

Puna, Potosí Puna is a village and the capital of the José María Linares Province in the Potosí Department Potosí (; Aymara: ''Putusi''; qu, P'utuqsi) is a department in southwestern Bolivia. It comprises 118,218 km2 with 823,517 inhabitants ...

in 1909.García Guadilla, Carmen (ed.)
Pensadores y forjadores de la universidad latinoamericana
' He obtained a law degree from the Tomás Frías University. He was one of the representatives of the Popular Front of Potosí in the Bolivian National Convention of 1938. He joined the

Revolutionary Left Party The Revolutionary Left Party ( es, Partido de la Izquierda Revolucionaria, PIR) was a communist party in Bolivia. It was founded by Dr. José Antonio Arze and other Bolivian intellectuals on 26 July 1940 during a left-wing congress held in Oru ...

(PIR) in 1940. He was a co-founder of the

Communist Party of Bolivia The Communist Party of Bolivia ( es, Partido Comunista de Bolivia) is a communist party in Bolivia. It was founded in 1950 by Raúl Ruiz González and other former members of the Revolutionary Left Party (PIR). It remained small and did not hol ...

(PCB). He was elected Deputy and Senator on a number of occasions. He was named Principal of the Tomás Frías University in 1955, and served in this role for three tenures. Villalpando Retamozo died on 30 May 1997.

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1909 births 1997 deaths Communist Party of Bolivia politicians People from José María Linares Province 20th-century Bolivian politicians Tomás Frías Autonomous University alumni {{viaf, 53184604