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Jorge Fernando Quiroga Ramírez (born 5 May 1960), often referred to as Tuto, is a Bolivian
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and politician who served as the 62nd
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from 2001 to 2002. A former member of
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, he previously served as the 36th
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from 1997 to 2001 under
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and as
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under
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in 1992. During the interim government of
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, he briefly served as the country's international delegate to denounce human rights violations from 2019 to 2020. Quiroga was a candidate in the
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and
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presidential elections, in which President
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was elected for a first and third term respectively. In both elections, Quiroga ran on the
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ticket. In the
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, Quiroga ran as a candidate for the Libre21 coalition, but withdrew his candidacy on 11 October 2020 (seven days prior to the election) in an unsuccessful attempt to unify the Bolivian opposition and prevent the socialist
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candidate
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from emerging victorious.


Background and early life

Quiroga was born in
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. He graduated from
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in 1981 with a degree in
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, becoming the first head of state from that university. Retrieved on Feb. 15, 2007 He went on to work for IBM in
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while earning a master's degree in business administration from
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. He and his American wife Virginia then moved back to Bolivia. He has 4 children: Vanessa Elena, Cristina Andrea, Adriana Patricia and Jorge Cristian.


Vice President of Bolivia (1997–2001)

Quiroga was
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in 1992. He was elected as
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in 1997 running on the
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ticket with former dictator
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. At 37, he was the youngest vice president in Bolivia's history.


President of Bolivia (2001–2002)

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 1 July 2001 and was sworn-in on 7 August, to complete Banzer's five-year mandate. Soon after becoming President he told a reporter from the ''
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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
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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 have a city today with no resolution to the water problem. In the end it will be necessary to bring in private investment to develop the water."


Post-presidency (2002–present)

Quiroga ran for President in his own right in the 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
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of the Movement Towards Socialism. Morales won the election and Quiroga finished a distant second place, receiving 28.6% of the vote. He has also worked as a consultant for the
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and the
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. In 2002, he was honored in a tribute exhibit at his alma mater, Texas A&M University. He is, as of November 2016, active in the private sector and many international organizations, among them: as Vice-President of Club de Madrid with almost 100 former heads of state and government; on the board of Results for Development-R4D in Washington D.C.; as a member of the Inter-American Dialogue and the International Advisory Council of the China Economic Club; and in different capacities on the Global Adaptation Institute, the Foro Iberoamericano and many others. He has presided FUNDEMOS since 2002, a Bolivian public policy foundation. His areas of expertise are: management of international aid and cooperation for developing countries; macroeconomic policy; constitutional, legal and institutional reforms; private and official external debt restructuring and relief; programs to reduce drug trafficking and cocaine production; and broadly in Latin American public policy, trade, economics, finance and banking, integration, politics and development issues. He was appointed as vice president of the
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in 2011. On 2 December 2019, the interim government of
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appointed Quiroga as an international delegate on a special mission to denounce
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by the ousted Morales administration. He held the post for just over a month, before resigning on 8 January 2020 in order to announce his presidential candidacy for the
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to be held later that year. Throughout the election cycle, he remained around sixth place reaching between 1 to 2% in
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and never surpassing 7%. On 11 October, one week before the scheduled election, Quiroga announced he was dropping out of the presidential race. He indicated in his withdrawal announcement that he wished to prevent an outright victory of
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of the Movement for Socialism party in the first electoral round by consolidating the right around
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.


See also

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Cabinet of Jorge Quiroga Jorge Quiroga assumed office as the 62nd President of Bolivia on 7 August 2001, and his term ended on 6 August 2002. Having previously served as vice president, Quiroga assumed the presidency after the resignation for health reasons by President ...
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