Andrónico Rodríguez Ledezma (born 11 November 1988) is a Bolivian cocalero activist, political scientist, politician, and trade unionist serving as president of the Senate since 2020.
From first to third grade, Rodríguez attended the Don Bosco de Melga School in Sacaba, later emigrating with his family to Entre Ríos in the coca-growing tropics of Cochabamba.
He completed secondary education in the city, graduating from the José Carrasco School in 2006 and fulfilling mandatory military service in the "Colonel Ladislao Cabrera" 33rd Infantry Regiment.
Rodríguez's upbringing was heavily influenced by the political activities of his parents; his father was a prominent peasant leader among the cocalero growers, while his mother worked as a minute secretary for the Manco Cápac Union at a time when it was uncommon for women to participate in organized labor.
Reporting for Infobae, journalist Tuffí Aré noted that "since his election in September 2018, [Rodríguez] almost always [appears] on the right or left side of Evo Morales ... the young character is already the president's most trusted man in his greatest stronghold (the Chapare)".
[13] Despite the victory, broader allegations of electoral fraud put the national results into question, sparking mass opposition protests that culminated in Morales's resignation and flight from the country just over a month later.
[14] In Morales's absence, Rodríguez found himself at the head of the Six Federations, a position he used to direct cocalero-led protests opposing the former president's ouster,[15][16] though he rejected more radical calls by some compatriots to "raise arms" in a Che-style insurgency.
[35] Though Rodríguez continues to be recognized as one of Morales's most trusted figures within both the legislature and cocalero movement,[36] more recently, he has also been highlighted as an emerging leader of his own Androniquista bloc, a quaternary faction within a MAS internally divided by Arcista, Choquehuanquista, and Evista currents all vying for leadership of the party.