Bienvenido Zacu Mborobainchi (born March 22, 1956,
Urubichá
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Ñuflo de Chávez Province
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) is a
Bolivian politician from the
Guarayo people
The Guarayos are an indigenous group living in their ancestral land in eastern Bolivia. They are located north of the department of Santa Cruz. The current population of the Guarayo group in Bolivia is 12,000. They primarily speak Guarayu, and 7 ...
.
[Zacu Mborobainchi, Bienvenido, and Ricardo Ontiveros. ]
Bienvenido Zacu Mborobainchi: líder de la marcha por la Asamblea Constituyente
'. Líderes contemporáneos del movimiento campesino indígena de Bolivia, no. 6. La Paz, Bolivia: CIPCA, 2006. pp. 7-8 His grandfather had been a Guarayo leader.
[Zacu Mborobainchi, Bienvenido, and Ricardo Ontiveros. ]
Bienvenido Zacu Mborobainchi: líder de la marcha por la Asamblea Constituyente
'. Líderes contemporáneos del movimiento campesino indígena de Bolivia, no. 6. La Paz, Bolivia: CIPCA, 2006. pp. 15-17
Zacu Mborobainchi grew up in Urubichá. He went to village school for three years. In 1976 he did his military service in the Ranger Manchego Regiment.
In 1987 was elected as the president of the Urubichá Community Centre. Between 1989 and 1991 he served as the president of the communal organization of the Guarayo people, COPNAG.
In 1994 he took part in the organizing committee of the Ethnic Coordination of Santa Cruz. Between 1995 and 1998 he served as president of the Coordination of Ethnic Peoples of Santa Cruz (CPESC). Between 1998 and 2002 he was the 'Land and Territory' Secretary of CIDOB.
[Zacu Mborobainchi, Bienvenido, and Ricardo Ontiveros. ]
Bienvenido Zacu Mborobainchi: líder de la marcha por la Asamblea Constituyente
'. Líderes contemporáneos del movimiento campesino indígena de Bolivia, no. 6. La Paz, Bolivia: CIPCA, 2006. back cover In 2002, Zacu Mborobainchi led the 'March for Popular Sovereignty, Territory and Natural Resources',
a protest march by foot that went from
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Santa Cruz de la Sierra (; "Holy Cross of the Mountain Range"), commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the largest city in Bolivia and the capital of the Santa Cruz department.
Situated on the Pirai River in the eastern Tropical Lowlands of Bolivia ...
to
La Paz. The March resulted in an accord with the government and political parties on constitutional reform which enabled the formation of the
Constituent Assembly
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.
In 2003 he served as vice president of CPESC.
In 2004 he was appointed General Director of the Plain Areas of the Ministry for Indigenous Affairs.
In March 2006, Zacu Mborobainchi was appointed the General Director for ''Tierras Comunitarias de Origen'' at the Deputy Ministry for Lands.
Zacu Mborobainchi was elected (as a
MAS candidate) to the Plurinational Legislative Assembly in 2009, as the deputy from the special peasant indigenous constituency of the
Santa Cruz Department
Santa Cruz () is the largest of the nine constituent departments of Bolivia, occupying about one-third (33.74%) of the country's territory. With an area of , it is slightly smaller than Japan or the US state of Montana. It is located in the e ...
. His alternate is Teresa Nomine Chiqueno. In the parliament, Zacu Mborobainchi is the president of the Indigenous Peasants Nations' and People's Commission of the lower chamber.
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1956 births
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Bolivia)
Living people
Movimiento al Socialismo politicians