Casimira RodrÃguez

Casimira Rodríguez Romero (born 1966 in Mizque, Department of Cochabamba ) is a Bolivian politician and trade unionist. She was from 2006 to 2007, the Bolivian Minister of Justice.

Life

With 13 Casimira was brought from her small Quechua village in the city of Cochabamba and had to pay for almost two decades unpaid housework. Later she was instrumental in building the union Federación Nacional de Hogar del Trabajadoras (National Federation of Domestic Workers of Bolivia, FENATRAHOB ) involved, whose first chairman she was and what 2003 could enforce a law to improve the situation of domestic workers. In addition, it was founded in 2001 as the General Secretary of the Association of Domestic Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean, which includes 14 unions elected. She also attended a night school and took her by calling in the government interrupted study of anthropology at the Universidad Católica Boliviana on.

Casimira Rodríguez is a member of the Evangelical Methodist Church of Bolivia and the party Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS ), Evo Morales. As a young woman she was involved in the work of the Christian Peace Conference, at the VI. Allchristlichen peace meeting she attended in Prague in 1985. In February 2006 she became the first woman Minister Quechua in Bolivia. Due to ongoing hostility or discrimination by the justice system in January 2007 she presented her office available.

She lives in La Paz