Olivia Guachalla was born on 6 April 1984 in the small town of Puerto Parajachi, a rural locality at the base of Cerro Ocorani, straddling the shoreline of Lake Titicaca in the Camacho Province of La Paz.

[3]: 1:11 Guachalla attended the Higher University of San Simón, where she studied law and communication science,[6] graduating as a lawyer[7] specializing in community social work and communitarian justice.

[3]: 6:25 During the campaign, Guachalla put forward a number of policy proposals core to her constituency, including, fundamentally, the expansion of public services in the poorer southern zone.

[9] Reforms to property rights was another topic Guachalla touched on, noting that the frequent lack of documentation proving land ownership often prevented residents from installing basic public services into their homes.

[5] One method of facilitating these developments, Guachalla proposed, would be to grant the southern zone increased autonomy, which she suggested could be done by separating the entire area into its own municipality, to be named San Joaquín de Itocta.