Tomasa Yarhui
Bolivian lawyer
Tomasa Yarhui Jacomé (born 7 March 1968) is a Bolivian lawyer and politician. She became the country's first indigenous government minister when she occupied the portfolio of Peasant Affairs and Indigenous Peoples during the government of President Jorge Quiroga on 5 March 2002.
Biography
Tomasa Yarhui was born in the Quechua community Manca Jallpa, Chuquisaca Department on 7 March 1968. In 1976, she left the region to study at a school in Sucre, where she said she suffered discrimination "for being a campesina girl" – for her dress and for her economic condition. This situation forced her to return to her village at age 12 in 1980, and that was when she entered the labor movement.
At age 17, in 1985, she was departmental leader with the Bartolina Sisa Confederation, and subsequently made a foray into the Unified Syndical Confederation of Rural Workers of Bolivia (CSUTCB). She was the youngest leader of the Unified Federation of Campesinos of Chuquisaca.
From 1993 to 1995 she was responsible for public relations in Chuquisaca at the Tomás Katari Polytechnic Institute. In 1996, she won the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP) political award.
Yarhui joined politics in the Free Bolivia Movement (MBL), and in 1999 she was the first indigenous woman municipal councilor of Sucre.
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