Julia Figueredo Paniagua (born 22 May 1966) is a Bolivian agricultural worker, politician, and trade unionist who served as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz from 2010 to 2015.
Julia Figueredo was born on 22 May 1966 in San José, a rural settlement in Papel Pampa, second municipal section of the Villarroel Province, on the highland Altiplano Plateau.
[7] The couple tended to a small chacra in Lacayotini, a village in Licoma Pampa Municipality, where they harvested vegetables like potatoes and tomatoes and worked as dairy farmers.
[3] Beginning in the early aughts, Figueredo progressively rose through the ranks of the Bartolina Sisa Confederation, chairing her local agrarian and women's union before being elected executive secretary of the organization's provincial branch in Inquisivi.
[10] Personal sympathy toward the political left, coupled with the pre-existing ties many peasant unions had to the party, fostered Figueredo's affiliation with the Movement for Socialism (MAS).
[13] She wrested the nomination from among three contending candidates representing regional social movement organizations – the Bartolina Sisa and Túpac Katari unions and select cocalero groups – and was presented on the MAS's electoral list in the La Paz Department.