Remedios Loza

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Francisca Remedios Loza Alvarado (21 August 1949 – 14 December 2018) was a Bolivian artisan, television presenter and politician. She was born in La Paz.[1]

Biography

After hearing her native Aymara language on the radio for the first time in September 1965,[2] Loza became a television presenter. She became the first person of indigenous descent to be seated in the Bolivian National Congress. Loza was a member of the Conscience of Fatherland (CONDEPA) and represented La Paz between 1989 and 2002.

She ran on CONDEPA presidential ticket twice in 1993 and in 1997.[3]

Loza died of stomach cancer on 14 December 2018 in La Paz, aged 69.[4]

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