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Alfonso Ferrufino

Bolivian politician (1942–2023)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ97940958 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hugo Alfonso "Fierro" Ferrufino Valderrama (30 March 1942 – 24 September 2023) was a Bolivian sociologist, lawyer, and politician. A member of the Revolutionary Left Movement and the Free Bolivia Movement, he served as Minister of Government from 2003 to 2004.

Ferrufino was born in Cochabamba on 30 March 1942, and died on 24 September 2023, at the age of 81.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alfonso Ferrufino” as bolivian politician (1942–2023). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 2023, 2003, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Alfonso, Ferrufino and Bolivian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as bolivian politician (1942–2023). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 6, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q97940958. The first chronological checks are 1942, 2023, 2003 and 2004.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Alfonso Ferrufino” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.