Ángel David Cortés Villegas (1 March 1955 – 30 October 2015) was a Bolivian educator, politician, and trade unionist who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from Potosí, representing circumscription 37 from 2010 to 2015.

Cortés graduated as a teacher from the Marshal Sucre Normal School [es] and obtained a master's in educational management from Tomás Frías University.

His opposition to the repressive military governments of the day brought him into the ranks of the Communist Party of Bolivia, an organization with which he fought for the rights of educators and mineworkers.

In 2005, he was appointed to serve as Potosí's senior official for culture and human development, a position that brought him to local notability for his tradition of dressing as Santa Claus during the Christmas season.

[5][6] While in the Chamber of Deputies, Cortés served as a leading member of the Parliamentary Network for Children and Adolescents, a legislative body committed to the rights and welfare of the country's youth.

[7][8] Throughout all five years of his term, Cortés served as the fourth secretary on the lower chamber's directorate, during which time he presented a total of twelve bills for consideration, of which four went on to be enacted into law.

[9] Around halfway through his term, Cortés distanced himself from the AS and aligned himself with the ruling Movement for Socialism, regularly voting in favor of the party's political projects from then on.