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Lidia Patty
(born 1969) is a Bolivian politician who is a former member of the
Chamber of Deputies
for the
Movimiento al Socialismo
(Movement for Socialism). A member of the
Kallawaya
– an
indigenous people
native to western Bolivia – she was a domestic worker and schoolteacher before entering politics. After maintaining a low profile in parliament, Patty gained national attention after her term ended when she opened a
complaint
for the
2019 Bolivian political crisis
, which resulted in the criminal prosecution of former president
Jeanine Áñez
. A polemical figure for her frequent denunciations of opposition and ruling party officials, Patty ran unsuccessfully in
the 2022 election
for
ombudsman of Bolivia
, and was briefly the Bolivian consul to
Puno
, Peru, in 2023 before being withdrawn amid
deteriorating relations between the two countries
. This official portrait of Patty as a member of the
Plurinational Legislative Assembly
was taken in 2016.
Photograph credit: Alejandra Vaca
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