Jorge Quiroga
Jorge Quiroga | |
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Official portrait, 2001 | |
| 62nd President of Bolivia | |
| In office 7 August 2001 – 6 August 2002 | |
| Vice President | None |
| 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 (2002) |
| 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 Quiroga Ramírez 5 May 1960 Cochabamba, Bolivia |
| Party | Libre (since 2025) |
| Other political affiliations | ADN (1993–2005) PODEMOS (2005–2009) PDC (2014–2019) |
| Spouse(s) |
Virginia Gillum
(m. 1989; div. 2008)Milena Dobronic (m. 2025) |
| 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 conservative 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.
He contended for the presidency again in the 2025 presidential election. After placing second with around 27% of the votes cast, he was defeated in the runoff against Senator Rodrigo Paz.