Rosa Cecilia Baltazar Yucailla is an

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politician who became a member of the

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in 2023.

Life

Baltazar has a

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from the

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. She is a translator of the

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. She is an adviser to the

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. In 2020 she joined the board of the pressure group "Land is Life". She wanted to help the group as it tries to empower indigenous leaders to resist the pressures to exploit their land. She was elected to the

following the

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. She is one of the four assembly members who represents the

province of Tungurahua Tungurahua ( es, Provincia del Tungurahua, literally ''Province of the Tungurahua''; ) is one of the twenty-four provinces of Ecuador. Its capital is Ambato. The province takes its name from the Tungurahua volcano, which is located within the b ...

. She benefited from a local context in favour of her party Pachakutik despite being relatively unknown. She is a member of the Permanent Commission of Education, Culture, Science, Technology, Innovation and Ancestral Knowledge. The other members were Mauricio Zambrano, Jahiren Noriega, Zolanda Pluas, Nathaly Morillo, Dallyana Passailaigue, Ana María Raffo, Hernán Zapata and Juan Carlos Camacho. Henry Kronfle became the President of the re-formed National Assembly of 137 representatives in 2023. At his election there were only nine members who voted against him including Mariana Yumbay, Adriana García, Lucia Posso, Fabiola Sanmartín, Andrea Rivadeneira, Carmen Tiupul, Luzmila Abad and Baltazar .

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