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Rodrigo Paz Pereira
Rodrigo Paz Pereira (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈðɾiɣo ˈpas peˈɾejɾa]; born 22 September 1967) is a Bolivian politician who is the president of Bolivia. The eldest son of former president Jaime Paz Zamora, he served as a senator for Tarija from 2020 to 2025. He also previously served as mayor of Tarija from 2015 to 2020 and as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2002 to 2010, representing his father's Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR).
Born in Spain during the exile of his father, Rodrigo Paz Pereira graduated from the American University in Washington, D.C., and joined the government of Hugo Banzer in various diplomatic positions. He was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2002 election for his father's MIR, serving until 2010. Following the dissolution of the MIR, Paz entered the local field of his family's political stronghold, Tarija, serving as President of the Municipal Council from 2010 to 2015 and as Mayor of Tarija from 2015 to 2020. In 2020, he was elected to the Chamber of Senators for the Civic Community list, representing Tarija.
In the 2025 general election, Rodrigo Paz Pereira ran as the candidate for president of the Christian Democratic Party, with former police officer Edmand Lara as his running mate. He defeated former president Jorge Quiroga in the first run-off vote in the history of the country.
Rodrigo Paz Pereira was born on 22 September 1967 in Santiago de Compostela, in Spain, the first-born son of Carmen Pereira Carballo, a native of Spain, and Bolivian then-exiled national Jaime Paz Zamora. Via his mother's side, he is the cousin of actress Camila Bossa, while his aunt Aurichu Pereira was married to politician Xosé Manuel Beiras until her death in 2023. Rodrigo Paz is related to José María Paz, an Argentine general during the Argentine War of Independence and the Argentine Civil Wars.
Paz spent his childhood and adolescence in political exile, a by-product of his father's political activity during the military dictatorships of the 1970s and early 1980s. He studied in numerous Jesuit schools in several countries, and when democracy was re-established in Bolivia, he attended the San Ignacio School in La Paz. Later, Paz studied at the American University in Washington, D.C., United States, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in international relations with a major in economics and a master's in political management. During the second presidency of Hugo Banzer—whose government was supported by the MIR—he worked as a commercial attaché at the Bolivian embassy in Spain and served as chargé d'affaires to the World Trade Organization.
Together with his brother, Jaime Paz Pereira, he was one of the so-called "political heirs" of the country, a group of younger statesmen whose political careers had been facilitated by their connections to the country's prominent party leaders. In the 2002 general elections, the MIR nominated Paz as its candidate for Tarija in circumscription 49 (Avilés-Méndez), a major stronghold of support for the party. Winning the seat with a comfortable majority, he was elected to represent the district for the 2002–2007 National Congress. Though the significant social conflicts of the time culminated in the collapse of the traditional party system, Paz's already-established political career survived. When the legislature's mandate was shortened by two years, he was presented by a diminished MIR as its candidate for Tarija in circumscription 46 (Cercado) for the 2005 general elections, in alliance with Social Democratic Power of Jorge Quiroga.
By August 2006, the inability of the MIR to achieve the required 2% vote threshold in that year's constituent assembly elections led to the loss of its national registration. With that, Paz joined the ranks of United to Renew (UNIR), led by the ex-Mirista and Tarija mayor Óscar Montes. In the 2010 regional elections, he headed UNIR's list of councillors in Tarija in support of Montes's bid for a third mayoral term. From 2010 to 2015, he served under Montes as the president of the Tarija Municipal Council and was nominated to succeed Montes as UNIR's mayoral candidate in the 2015 regional elections. Paz swept the race, winning almost 60% of the city's votes.
At his mayoral inauguration on 30 May 2015, Montes highlighted that "it has been the MIR, then UNIR, who will govern Tarija for twenty consecutive years". However, Paz's own political project, focused on "rescuing the great Mirista root" of his father's party, ultimately resulted in the rupture of his alliance with Montes and his departure from UNIR just a year into his term, under accusations that he was trying to "destroy UNIR in order to structure the Revolutionary Left Movement". The culmination of Paz's political project came on 3 April 2019 with the establishment of the First the People (Primero la Gente; PG) civic group. With himself at the head, PG aimed at consolidating municipal and departmental sectors into a political alliance whose "ideology is the people".
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Rodrigo Paz Pereira
Rodrigo Paz Pereira (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈðɾiɣo ˈpas peˈɾejɾa]; born 22 September 1967) is a Bolivian politician who is the president of Bolivia. The eldest son of former president Jaime Paz Zamora, he served as a senator for Tarija from 2020 to 2025. He also previously served as mayor of Tarija from 2015 to 2020 and as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2002 to 2010, representing his father's Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR).
Born in Spain during the exile of his father, Rodrigo Paz Pereira graduated from the American University in Washington, D.C., and joined the government of Hugo Banzer in various diplomatic positions. He was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2002 election for his father's MIR, serving until 2010. Following the dissolution of the MIR, Paz entered the local field of his family's political stronghold, Tarija, serving as President of the Municipal Council from 2010 to 2015 and as Mayor of Tarija from 2015 to 2020. In 2020, he was elected to the Chamber of Senators for the Civic Community list, representing Tarija.
In the 2025 general election, Rodrigo Paz Pereira ran as the candidate for president of the Christian Democratic Party, with former police officer Edmand Lara as his running mate. He defeated former president Jorge Quiroga in the first run-off vote in the history of the country.
Rodrigo Paz Pereira was born on 22 September 1967 in Santiago de Compostela, in Spain, the first-born son of Carmen Pereira Carballo, a native of Spain, and Bolivian then-exiled national Jaime Paz Zamora. Via his mother's side, he is the cousin of actress Camila Bossa, while his aunt Aurichu Pereira was married to politician Xosé Manuel Beiras until her death in 2023. Rodrigo Paz is related to José María Paz, an Argentine general during the Argentine War of Independence and the Argentine Civil Wars.
Paz spent his childhood and adolescence in political exile, a by-product of his father's political activity during the military dictatorships of the 1970s and early 1980s. He studied in numerous Jesuit schools in several countries, and when democracy was re-established in Bolivia, he attended the San Ignacio School in La Paz. Later, Paz studied at the American University in Washington, D.C., United States, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in international relations with a major in economics and a master's in political management. During the second presidency of Hugo Banzer—whose government was supported by the MIR—he worked as a commercial attaché at the Bolivian embassy in Spain and served as chargé d'affaires to the World Trade Organization.
Together with his brother, Jaime Paz Pereira, he was one of the so-called "political heirs" of the country, a group of younger statesmen whose political careers had been facilitated by their connections to the country's prominent party leaders. In the 2002 general elections, the MIR nominated Paz as its candidate for Tarija in circumscription 49 (Avilés-Méndez), a major stronghold of support for the party. Winning the seat with a comfortable majority, he was elected to represent the district for the 2002–2007 National Congress. Though the significant social conflicts of the time culminated in the collapse of the traditional party system, Paz's already-established political career survived. When the legislature's mandate was shortened by two years, he was presented by a diminished MIR as its candidate for Tarija in circumscription 46 (Cercado) for the 2005 general elections, in alliance with Social Democratic Power of Jorge Quiroga.
By August 2006, the inability of the MIR to achieve the required 2% vote threshold in that year's constituent assembly elections led to the loss of its national registration. With that, Paz joined the ranks of United to Renew (UNIR), led by the ex-Mirista and Tarija mayor Óscar Montes. In the 2010 regional elections, he headed UNIR's list of councillors in Tarija in support of Montes's bid for a third mayoral term. From 2010 to 2015, he served under Montes as the president of the Tarija Municipal Council and was nominated to succeed Montes as UNIR's mayoral candidate in the 2015 regional elections. Paz swept the race, winning almost 60% of the city's votes.
At his mayoral inauguration on 30 May 2015, Montes highlighted that "it has been the MIR, then UNIR, who will govern Tarija for twenty consecutive years". However, Paz's own political project, focused on "rescuing the great Mirista root" of his father's party, ultimately resulted in the rupture of his alliance with Montes and his departure from UNIR just a year into his term, under accusations that he was trying to "destroy UNIR in order to structure the Revolutionary Left Movement". The culmination of Paz's political project came on 3 April 2019 with the establishment of the First the People (Primero la Gente; PG) civic group. With himself at the head, PG aimed at consolidating municipal and departmental sectors into a political alliance whose "ideology is the people".