Guillermo Torrez

Osvaldo Guillermo Torrez Arisaca (born 24 June 1973) is a Bolivian community organizer and politician who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz, representing circumscription 11 from 2010 to 2015.

[2] Torrez attended local institutes for most of his primary and secondary education and received his baccalaureate [es] after migrating to Santa Cruz, from the 24 de Septiembre School, where he took night courses.

[3] Though he never pursued formal university education, Torrez did attend trade schools; he took courses at INFOCAL[β] and graduated as an industrial welder from the Santa Cruz Technological Institute.

[4] On his return to La Paz, he became engaged in community-building activities and ventured into organizational leadership in the city's micro-enterprise cooperatives: he served as secretary of sports for his local neighborhood council in 2001 and held ranking positions in the Departmental Federation of Micro and Small Enterprises around 2005.

[4] The district he contested, single-member circumscription 11, encompassed La Paz's western slope, including large parts of its commercial zone.