Roberto Rojas (politician)

Roberto Rojas Herrera (25 November 1966 – 17 October 2022) was a Bolivian accountant, politician, and trade unionist who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz, representing circumscription 15 from 2010 to 2015.

Following his tenure in the legislature, he returned to El Alto, briefly serving as regional manager of the state-owned water and sanitation company before finally retiring from public life.

[2][3] The following year, he moved to El Alto in search of better economic opportunity,[4] a common destination among the department's rural inhabitants, whose exodus from the Altiplano in the latter decades of the twentieth century exponentially increased the city's demographic growth.

[5] Rojas worked for some time as a police officer while continuing his studies at various universities in La Paz, finally graduating as a general accountant with a diploma in governance.

[7] Such was the case with Rojas, who in 2009 was made vice president of the La Paz Departmental Autonomous Council, a body established to aid in implementing the department's newly-granted political autonomy.