(22 June 2010) The Vice President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Álvaro García Linera, will deliver a master lecture on Thursday, June 24 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
García Linera will speak on Power, the State and Socialism in Contemporary Bolivia at 11.30 a.m. in the Raúl Prebisch conference room at ECLAC.
The Bolivian Vice President will be received at Commission headquarters by ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena and the Director of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-CHILE), Andrés Solimano.
García Linera was appointed Vice President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia by President Evo Morales in 2005. He has a degree in mathematics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and later studied sociology in La Paz, Bolivia. Prior to his government post, García Linera was a university professor and conducted social research, publishing dozens of essays, academic articles and studies in several languages, as well as books on political theory, economic regimes, social movements and democratic systems.
In 2004 he won the Social Sciences award "Agustín Cueva" granted by the School of Sociology and Political Science of the Central University of Ecuador.
The master lecture by the Vice President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Álvaro García Linera, is open to the media.
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