Jorge Quiroga

Jorge Quiroga OCA OSP
Official portrait by Antonio Suárez, 2001
62nd President of Bolivia
In office 7 August 2001 – 6 August 2002 Acting: 1 July 2001 – 7 August 2001
Vice President	Vacant
Preceded by	Hugo Banzer
Succeeded by	Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
36th Vice President of Bolivia
In office 6 August 1997 – 7 August 2001
President	Hugo Banzer
Preceded by	Víctor Hugo Cárdenas
Succeeded by	Carlos Mesa
Minister of Finance
In office 17 March 1992 – 12 November 1992
President	Jaime Paz Zamora
Preceded by	David Blanco Zabala
Succeeded by	Juan Pablo Zegarra
Bolivia's international delegate to denounce human rights violations
In office 2 December 2019 – 8 January 2020
President	Jeanine Áñez
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	Jorge Fernando Arturo Quiroga Ramírez (1960-05-05) 5 May 1960 (age 64) Cochabamba, Bolivia
Political party	Libre 21 (2020–present)
Other political affiliations	Nationalist Democratic Action (before 2005) Social Democratic Power (2005–2009) Christian Democratic Party (2014–2018)
Spouse	Virginia Gillum
Children	4
Alma mater	Texas A&M University St. Edward's University
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Jorge Fernando Tuto Quiroga Ramírez (born 5 May 1960) is a Bolivian politician and industrial engineer who served as the 62nd president of Bolivia from 2001 to 2002. A former member of Nationalist Democratic Action, he previously served as the 36th vice president of Bolivia from 1997 to 2001 under Hugo Banzer and as minister of finance under Jaime Paz Zamora in 1992. During the interim government of Jeanine Áñez, he was briefly appointed from 2019 to 2020 as the country's international spokesperson to denounce alleged human rights violations by the previous government.

Quiroga was a candidate in the 2005 and 2014 presidential elections, in which President Evo Morales was elected for a first and third term respectively. In both elections, Quiroga ran on the Christian Democratic Party ticket. In the 2020 presidential election, Quiroga ran as a candidate for the Libre21 coalition, but withdrew his candidacy on 11 October 2020 (seven days prior to the election) in an unsuccessful attempt to unify the Bolivian opposition and prevent the socialist MAS-IPSP candidate Luis Arce from emerging victorious.^[1]