He served as president of the Poopó Vigilance Committee from 1999 to 2003, also holding positions at the regional and national level, and chaired the Juan de la Salle Neighborhood Council in the city of Oruro from 2007 to 2010.

[4] He completed his secondary studies in the city of Oruro, at the Aniceto Arce National School, and fulfilled his term of mandatory military service in Guaqui, La Paz, as part of the 5th Lanza Cavalry Regiment.

He became especially involved in areas of community engagement established by Bolivia's Popular Participation Law, particularly as a member of various vigilance committees – bodies composed of civil society organizations put in place to foster lines of communication with local governments and grant the populace a greater degree of social control over their municipal authorities.

[14] In the ensuing years, Choque also presided over the Juan de la Salle Neighborhood Council in the city of Oruro from 2007 to 2010 and served as secretary of finance for the regional capital's fifth district.

As the lowest-ranked candidate on the MAS's senatorial slate, Choque's election benefitted from a change in the Bolivian electoral system,[16][γ] coupled with his party's near-clean sweep of Oruro's parliamentary delegation that cycle.

[§] Topics of budget,[18] tax policy,[19] and the allocation of economic resources toward infrastructure and rural development projects[20] – with a special emphasis on eradicating extreme poverty in Oruro's least-developed regions – occupied Choque's agenda during his first years in office.