Patricia Mancilla

Patricia Mancilla
Official portrait, 2014
Member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz
In office 19 January 2010 – 18 January 2015
Substitute	Eliseo Suxo
Preceded by	Enrique Marín
Succeeded by	Natalia Calle
Constituency	Party list
Personal details
Born	Patricia Mancilla Martínez (1967-10-09) 9 October 1967 (age 56) Asiento Araca, La Paz, Bolivia
Political party	Movement for Socialism (since 2000)
Other political affiliations	Conscience of Fatherland (1999–2000)
Occupation	Politician trade unionist

Patricia Mancilla Martínez (born 9 October 1967) is a Bolivian politician and trade unionist who served as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz from 2010 to 2015. A member of the Movement for Socialism, she previously served on the Cairoma Municipal Council from 2000 to 2005.

Mancilla was raised in Asiento Araca in the agricultural Araca Valley. She worked as a promotora and delivered catechesis on Catholic theology. In tandem, Mancilla played an active role in regional trade unionism, holding positions within the Bartolina Sisa Confederation of peasant women throughout the 1990s.

Elected to the Cairoma Municipal Council as a member of Conscience of Fatherland in 1999, Mancilla quickly defected to the Movement for Socialism and held positions within the party's internal structure. As a member of the Chamber of Deputies, Mancilla launched a court petition seeking the decriminalization of abortion, which failed but did produce some modest outcomes for the abortion-rights movement. She was not nominated for reelection.