María Cecilia Chacón

María Cecilia Chacón
Chacón in August 2019
Minister of Defense
In office
2011
PresidentEvo Morales

María Cecilia Chacón Rendón is a Bolivian lawyer and political scientist who served as the minister of defense in 2011.[1] She became the first woman to occupy that office. She served as General Director of Multilateral Relations (Spanish: Directora General de Relaciones Multilaterales) and Chief of Cabinet for the Vice Ministry of Foreign Economic and Commercial Relations (Spanish: Jefa de Gabinete del Viceministerio Relaciones Económicas y Comercio Exterior) in the foreign ministry under President Evo Morales.[1] She also worked in the Water Ministry.[2]

She resigned from the post of minister of defense during the 2011 Bolivian protests in reaction to the government's violent crackdown on demonstrators opposed to a highway project in a national park.

References

  1. ^ a b "María Chacón, primera ministra de Defensa". Los Tiempos. 2011-04-07. Archived from the original on 2011-04-10. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
  2. ^ "Marcha indígena se encuentra en territorio cochabambino". El Diario. 2006-11-14. Retrieved 2011-04-06.


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