Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein

Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein
Official portrait, 2012
Senator for Beni
In office 19 January 2010 – 18 January 2015
Substitute	Magda Arze
Preceded by	Wálter Guiteras [es]
Succeeded by	Yerko Núñez
Member of the Chamber of Deputies from Beni circumscription 64
In office 2 August 2002 – 19 January 2010
Substitute	Guido Destre (2002–2006) Franklin Valdivia (2006–2010)
Preceded by	Sandro Giordano
Succeeded by	Einar Gozalves
Constituency	Riberalta
Personal details
Born	Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein Antelo (1961-01-28) 28 January 1961 (age 63) Riberalta, Beni, Bolivia
Political party	Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
Occupation	Businessman politician rancher

Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein Antelo (born 28 January 1961) is a Bolivian businessman, politician, and rancher who served as senator for Beni from 2010 to 2015. A member of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, he previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from Beni, representing circumscription 64 from 2002 to 2010.

Born into a wealthy upper-class family from Riberalta, Sonnenschein's early career was characteristic of many of Beni's economic elite. He held executive positions in the most relevant corporate entities handling the department's export and cattle industries and played prominent roles in the civic sector, including chairing Riberalta's civic committee as well as its major utility cooperatives and sports associations.

Having served in leadership within the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement's Riberalta affiliate, Sonnenschein won a seat representing the municipality in the Chamber of Deputies in 2002. Reelected to a second term in 2005, he survived the party's dramatic fall from grace, a decline that, by 2009, led him to join National Convergence for his final electoral bid for Senate. Despite serving a collective twelve years between his three parliamentary terms, Sonnenschein was conspicuously absent most of the time, preferring to remain in his home region than deal with the goings on at the capital.