Wilson Santamaría
Wilson Santamaría | |
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Official portrait, 2017 | |
| Minister of Government | |
| In office 19 October 2020 – 20 October 2020 | |
| President | Jeanine Áñez |
| Preceded by | Arturo Murillo |
| Succeeded by | Arturo Murillo |
| Vice Minister of Public Security | |
| In office 19 November 2019 – 5 November 2020 | |
| President | Jeanine Áñez |
| Minister | Arturo Murillo |
| Preceded by | Wilfredo Chávez |
| Succeeded by | Gonzalo Lazcano |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz | |
| In office 18 January 2015 – 19 November 2019 | |
| Substitute | Rufina Cladera |
| Preceded by | Ana María Sempértegui |
| Succeeded by | Rufina Cladera |
| Constituency | Party list |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Wilson Pedro Santamaría Choque 9 September 1981 La Paz, Bolivia |
| Political party | Somos Pueblo (from 2019) |
| Other political affiliations | National Unity Front (until 2019) |
| Alma mater | Higher University of San Andrés |
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Wilson Pedro Santamaría Choque (born 9 September 1981) is a Bolivian lawyer, politician, and sociologist who served as vice minister of public security from 2019 to 2020. A graduate of the Higher University of San Andrés with extensive postgraduate studies, Santamaría entered the political field as a partisan of the National Unity Front and served as the party's municipal leader for La Paz. In 2014, he was elected as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies, representing the La Paz Department from 2015 to 2019.
In parliament, Santamaría split with National Unity, reorienting himself towards the Social Democratic Movement and establishing a close personal relationship with colleague Rafael Quispe, whose party, Somos Pueblo, he joined. Following a failed second term bird in 2019, Santamaría entered the Áñez administration as vice minister of public security and served briefly as acting minister of government for a day between the removal and reinstatement of Arturo Murillo. Upon the conclusion of his tenure, Santamaría supported the gubernatorial campaign of Quispe and ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the La Paz Departmental Legislative Assembly.