Bertha Beatriz Acarapi (born 7 June 1971) is a Bolivian politician and former television presenter serving as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz since 2020.
Outside of politics, Acarapi's lengthy career in radio and television journalism led her to join ATB in 2015, becoming one of the country's first high-profile chola indigenous presenters.
[4][8] Later in 1992, Acarapi made the jump to television, hosting the program De Cara al Pueblo on Channel 24, then owned by the Alteño politician José Luis Paredes.
[2] Through her connection with Paredes, Acarapi was nominated by the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) to stand for office as a councillor for El Alto in the 1999 municipal elections.
[8] In 2014, Acarapi joined Red ATB as a morning and noon newscaster, reporting on national stories as well as some focusing on La Paz and El Alto.
[17] In other fields, Acarapi taught as a professor at the Public University of El Alto and worked as a trainer on gender issues, during which time she traveled to numerous countries to teach women leadership skills.
[18] In the leadup to the 2019 general elections, President Evo Morales invited Acarapi to run for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies on behalf of the Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP).
[25] As a deputy, Acarapi primarily focused her work on El Alto, even installing her office in the city, seeking to serve as a "nexus between the central government and neighborhood organizations".
In October 2021, Acarapi pointed out that less than six months since taking office, four municipal councillors in La Paz Department alone had resigned after suffering harassment, while a further ten reported enduring similar experiences.