Nélida Sifuentes Cueto

Nélida Sifuentes Cueto is a politician and a union leader of the indigenous peasant movement in Bolivia. She was elected in 2009 to the Bolivian Senate, and since 2013 she has served as first vice-president of the Senate.[1]

Biography

Nélida Sifuentes was born in Chuquisaca on July 18, 1981. At the age of 15 she was an ACLO radio reporter in Chuquisaca, becoming chair of a departmental association of reporters, and was later a community leader in the canton of de:Tarabuquillo. She held executive positions in Tomina province (2003) and in the prefecture of Chuquisaca (2006), and from 2004 to 2006 was general secretary of the indigenous organization Federación Única de Pueblos Originarios de Chuquisaca (F.U.T.P.O.CH.).

In 2009 she was elected Senator for the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS - IPSP) party, representing the department of Chuquisaca in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia.[2] She was chair (2014–15) and secretary (2017–18) of the Senate committee on land, natural resources and environment,[3][4] and has been instrumental in implementing a cybersecurity strategy for the Bolivian state.[5]

References
  1. "Nélida Sifuentes Cueto" (in Spanish). Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional de Bolivia. 16 October 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  2. "Nélida Sifuentes Cueto" (in Spanish). senado.bo. Archived from the original on 2 June 2015. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
  3. "Cámara de Senadores elige a presidencias de Comisiones y Comités 2014 -2015 - La Razón". La Razón Digital (in Spanish). 27 January 2014.
  4. "Senado y diputados formaron sus comisiones legislativas". Erbol Digital (in Spanish). 1 February 2017.
  5. "SENADORES APRUEBAN PROYECTO DE LEY PARA LA IMPLEMENTACIÓN DE LA ESTRATEGIA DE CIBERSEGURIDAD DE ESTADO". TeleInfoPress. 16 January 2017.
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