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'{{spanish name|García|Linera}} {{Infobox President | name = Álvaro García Linera | image =Álvaro_García_Linera_-_Participante_del_Foro_Internacional_por_la_Emancipación_y_la_Igualdad_2011_(cropped).jpg | order = | office = [[Vice President of Bolivia]] | president = [[Evo Morales]] | term_start = January 22, 2006 | term_end = | predecessor = [[Carlos Mesa]] | successor = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1962|10|19}} | birth_place = [[Cochabamba]], [[Bolivia]] | death_date = | death_place = | party = [[Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples|Movement for Socialism]] | otherparty = | occupation = [[Vice president]] | signature = | website = }} '''Álvaro Marcelo García Linera''' ({{IPA-es|ˈalβaɾo ɣaɾˈsi.a li'neɾa|lang}}; born 19 October 1962), is a [[Bolivia]]n [[Politics of Bolivia|politician]] who has been [[Vice President of Bolivia]] since 2006.<ref>[http://www.vicepresidencia.gob.bo Vicepresidency of Bolivia]</ref> ==Early life== García wrote a monograph about the different political and social organizations that were a part of the political rise of the MAS and other indigenous factions, ''Sociología de los Movimientos Sociales en Bolivia (Sociology of Social Movements in Bolivia)'', which was published in 2005.<ref>Garcia Linera, Alvaro. ''Sociología de los Movimientos Sociales en Bolivia''. La Paz: Plural, 2005.</ref> ==Political career== García was elected vice president as the running partner to [[Evo Morales]] in the [[Bolivian presidential election, 2005|2005 presidential elections]]. He is an advocate of nationalization of Bolivia's hydrocarbon industry. In 2005 interview, he said that hydrocarbons "would be the second unifying factor of this society in October, 2003" and that "the debates over hydrocarbons are playing with the destiny of [[Bolivia]]."<ref name="Webber Interview">{{cite news|last=Webber|first=Jeffery R.|title=Marxism and Indigenism in Bolivia: A Dialectic of Dialogue and Conflict|url=http://www.zcommunications.org/marxism-and-indigenism-in-bolivia-a-dialectic-of-dialogue-and-conflict-by-lvaro-garc-a-linera|accessdate=3 December 2012|newspaper=ZCommunications|date=25 April 2005}}</ref> In December 2010, Linera posted the cables mentioning Bolivia from the website [[WikiLeaks]], which leaks information from classified sources and whistleblowers, on his official page. Linera said linking this negative information was intended to allow people to see “barbarities and insults” in Washington and to expose their "interventionist infiltration."<ref name=BVPPWCOW>{{cite news|title=Bolivian VP Posts WikiLeaks Cables on his Website|url=http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2010/12/08/bolivian-vp-posts-wikileaks-cables-website/|accessdate=21 November 2012|newspaper=Fox News Latino|date=8 December 2010}}</ref><ref>[http://wikileaks.vicepresidencia.gob.bo Wikileaks - Vicepresidency of Bolivia]</ref><ref name=DRW>{{cite news|title=Documentos revelados por Wikileaks ratifican un gobierno imperial, intervencionista y abusivo: García Linera|url=http://www.fmbolivia.com.bo/noticia41636-documentos-revelados-por-wikileaks-ratifican-un-gobierno-imperial-intervencionista-y-abusivo-garcia-linera.html|accessdate=21 November 2012|newspaper=FM Bolivia|date=30 November 2010}}</ref> García Linera has defended the [[Law of the Rights of Mother Earth]], saying that it is not intended as a means to hamper industrial development or mineral extraction. Private miners have disagreed with this stance, suggesting that the law allows the government to expropriate their operations without providing compensation and that is signals Bolivia is hostile to foreign investment.<ref name=EF>{{cite web|last=Achtenberg|first=Emily|title=Earth First?|url=http://nacla.org/blog/2012/11/16/earth-first-bolivia%E2%80%99s-mother-earth-law-meets-neo-extractivist-economy|work=Knowledge Beyond Borders|publisher=NACLA|accessdate=20 November 2012}}</ref> García Linera has indicated his intention of leaving politics for teaching and writing in 2014, at the end of his current term. <ref name=razon>[http://www.la-razon.com/sociedad/vicepresidente-Garcia-confirma-insinua-politica_0_1573642716.html El vicepresidente García confirma su proxima boda e insinúa su retiro de la politica para el 2014. La Razon - March 12, 2012]</ref> He did not comment on his re-election the same year to the present day. ==Personal life== On March 8, 2012, García Linera publicly confirmed his engagement to Claudia Fernández Valdivia, a news anchor with Bolivian television station Red Uno.<ref name=razon/> They were married in September 2012, holding an indigenous ceremony on Saturday the 8th and a Catholic one on Sunday the 9th.<ref>http://www.laprensa.com.bo/diario/entretendencias/escena/20120909/la-pachamama-los-bendijo_33473_53530.html</ref><ref>http://alvarogarciayclaudiafernandez.blogspot.com/2012/09/fotos-el-vicepresidente- In February of 1989 He was the leader of an assault of the remittance of the company Caracoles, stealing USD 40.000 In February 1990 he assaulted and stole USD 20.000 to the Electricity Company COBEE. The 4th of November of 1991 he made an assault at the point of a gun in the house of Walter Gumucio, stealing USD 95.000. In April 1991 he made an armed robbery at the house of Zenon Daza stealing USD 60.000 In 1991 he stole the remittance of the San Simon University in Cochabamba, the sum was of USD 622.000. On the 4th of July 1991 made an attack to the electricity towers of El Kenko. On the 6th of July 1991 made an attack to the national YPFB oil pipes of Villa Remedios. On the 27 of July, 1991, he caused the destruction of a High Tension tower in Sacaba, Cochabamba. 1 of August 1991, destroyed the Electric tower of Milluni 3 of August 1991, attack to the parliamentarian Brigade of Cochabamba. 6 of August 1991, attack to the monument of Eduardo Avaroa in Achacachi. 7 of august 1991, attack to the Supreme Court of Justice 10 of August 1991, attack to the High Tension Tower at Km. 8 Sacaba. 30 of august 1991, attack of the Ferrolux building in Cochabamba. Attack of a High tension Tower in Kellhuani, two terrorists died in the explosion. 19 of September 1991, Atatck of a high tension tower in Panduro. 13 of January 1992, attack to Radio Pio XII 31 of janaury 1991, attack to a bridge of the Highway Cochabamba-Sucre. YPFB Oil pipielines La Huanchaca attack. <ref>http://eju.tv/2012/07/la-mala-memoria-de-qananchiri/</ref> In the early 1990s, García Linera was the leader of the [[Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army]]. In 1992, he was accused of armed uprising and arrested along with several other insurgents. He was freed in 1997.<ref>http://www.la-razon.com/especial_mandato_historico/marxista-hallo-cable-tierra_0_2203579702.html</ref> == Interviews, speeches and articles by Álvaro García Linera == *[http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article938 “The MAS is of the Centre-Left” An interview with Álvaro García Linera by Pablo Stefanoni, International View Point, December 2005] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080604051336/http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/6397 Marxism and Indigenism in Bolivia: A Dialectic of Dialogue and Conflict, Z Net, April 2005] *[http://links.org.au/node/264 Indianismo and Marxism: The mismatch of two revolutionary rationales, Links, 2005] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070815143558/http://21stcenturysocialism.com/article/neo-liberalism_and_the_new_socialism_01389.html "Neo-liberalism and the New Socialism – Speech by Alvaro Garcia Linera", Political Affairs, January-February 2007] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120506141712/http://21stcenturysocialism.com/article/neo-liberalism_and_the_new_socialism_01389.html Bolivia: Coming to Terms with Diversity], Laura Carlsen interviews Alvaro Garcia Linera, 2007 *[http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2008/06/alvaro-garcia-linera-catastrophic.html Catastrophic equilibrium and point of bifurcation, Bolivia Rising, May 2008] ==References== {{Reflist}}12. <nowiki>http://www.bolivia.com/noticias/autonoticias/detallenoticia30228.asp</nowiki>){{Morales cabinet}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Garcia Linera, Alvaro}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:1962 births]] [[Category:Vice Presidents of Bolivia]] [[Category:People imprisoned on charges of terrorism]] [[Category:Bolivian prisoners and detainees]] [[Category:Bolivian people of Spanish descent]] [[Category:Prisoners and detainees of Bolivia]] [[Category:People from Cochabamba]] [[Category:Movement for Socialism (Bolivia) politicians]]'