Jorge Quiroga

Jorge Fernando (called " Tuto " ) Quiroga Ramírez ( born May 5, 1960 in Cochabamba ) is a Bolivian politician quite liberal.

Jorge Quiroga was on August 7, 2001 to August 6, 2002, President of Bolivia. In the presidential elections on 18 December 2005 he became a candidate of the bourgeois electoral alliance Poder Democrático y Social ( " Democratic and Social Power" ) abbreviated PODEMOS (Spanish: " we can " ) to. Quiroga is married to the U.S. citizen Virginia Gillum since 1989 and the couple have four children.

After finishing school in Santa Cruz ( 1977) Quiroga studied in the U.S. and graduated from Texas A & M University a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, then in 1986 the Master of Business Administration from St. Edward 's University in Austin (Texas ). Quiroga worked in the U.S. for IBM 1988 and returned back to Bolivia.

Quiroga joined the center-right party ADN ( Acción Democrática Nacionalista = " National Democratic Movement ") of former military dictator Hugo Banzer one. In 1997, Quiroga was. Banzer under the age of 37 the youngest vice president in Bolivia's history After Hugo Banzer was forced to resign for health reasons (lung cancer ), Quiroga took over on 7 August 2001, the office of president to the end of the regular term of office on 6 August 2002. According to the Bolivian constitution Quiroga was not allowed to run for re-election as an incumbent.

For the early presidential elections in 2005, he formally joined from from the ADN to compete as a non-party -bound candidate for the electoral alliance PODEMOS. The ADN supported his candidacy and renounced its own presidential candidate.

In the first years of the government of the new president Evo Morales, he was considered one of the fiercest opposition critics. In 2010 he was, however, accused of slander and libel. He accused the leadership of the public banking group Banco Unión SA corruption, money laundering and mismanagement. In the first instance, he was sentenced to 2 years and 8 months in prison. He can not run for public office under the Constitution. Quiroga, however, adheres to abroad and has the adhesive walk over it. He continues to participate in initiatives to bring his criticism of the Bolivian and other leftist governments of Latin America to the public. Beginning of 2011 is to be brought according to Vice President, Mr Garcia Linera another process. This involves contracts with oil companies that Quiroga has signed during his tenure as president.