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Roberto Aguilar

Bolivian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ7351747 ↗
Source-derived summary

Roberto Ivan Aguilar Gómez (born 19 May 1958 in La Paz, Bolivia) is a Bolivian economist, former university official, politician, and former Minister of Education from 2008 until 2019, when Evo Morales resigned. Aguilar served as docent, general secretary, and rector in the Universidad Mayor de San Andres in La Paz. In 2006, he was elected as a plurinominal member of the Bolivian Constituent Assembly for the Movement for Socialism and served as its vice president. In November 2008, he was appointed by Evo Morales as Minister of Education, succeeding Magdalena Cajías.

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The public source identifies “Roberto Aguilar” as bolivian politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Roberto, Aguilar and Bolivian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 2008, 2019, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958-05-19. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Roberto, Aguilar and Bolivian providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7351747. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1958, 2008, 2019 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Roberto Aguilar” 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.