# 1979–1980 Bolivian National Congress

The Bolivian National Congress 1979–1980 was elected on 1 July 1979.

## Chamber of Deputies

| Deputy | Alliance | Party | Department |
| Adalberto Kuajara Arandia | UDP | PCB | Santa Cruz |
| Adolfo Sánchez Suárez | ADN | ADN | Pando |
| Agapito Feliciano Monzón | MNR-A | MNR | Oruro |
| Alberto Ruíz Pérez | MNR-A | MNR | Tarija |
| Alcides Alvarado Daza | UDP | MNRI | La Paz |
| Aldo Flores Alvarez | UDP | PCB | La Paz |
| Alfonso Ferrufino Balderrama | UDP | MIR | Cochabamba |
| Alfonso Prado Luizaga | MNR-A | MNR | Cochabamba |
| Alfredo Nogales | MNR-A | MRTK-Chila | Potosí |
| Ángel Gemio Ergueta | MNR-A | MNR | Santa Cruz |
| Angel Vera | UDP | MNRI | La Paz |
| Antonio Araníbar Quiroga | UDP | MIR | La Paz |
| Armando Roncal Fernández | PS-1 | PS-1 | Chuquisaca |
| Augusto Cuadros Sánchez | MNR-A | MNR | Cochabamba |
| Augusto Gotrett Baldivieso | ADN | ADN | Potosí |
| Carlos Arancibia Vildoso | UDP | MNRI | Chuquisaca |
| Carlos Benquique Ojopi | MNR-A | MNR | Pando |
| Carlos Carrasco Fernandez | UDP | MNRI | Cochabamba |
| Carlos Carvajal Nava | UDP | PCB | Chuquisaca |
| Casiano Amurrio Rocha | MNR-A | PCML | Cochabamba |
| César Vela | UDP | MRTK | Chuquisaca |
| David Añez Pedraza | APIN | FSB | Beni |
| Dulfredo Rúa Bejarano | UDP | MIR | Potosí |
| Edgar Ramírez | UDP | PCB | Potosí |
| Edgar Tapia Reyes | UDP | MNRI | La Paz |
| Emma Navajas de Alandia | MNR-A | PDC | Tarija |
| Erasmo Pérez Victorias | MNR-A | PDC | Oruro |
| Ernesto Dolz Guerrero | MNR-A | PCML | Tarija |
| Eudoro Galindo | ADN | ADN | Cochabamba |
| Félix Rospigliossi Nieto | UDP | MNRI | La Paz |
| Francisco Portales Gonzáles | MNR-A | PDC | Santa Cruz |
| Fredy Vargas Méndez | APIN | UDC | Cochabamba |
| Gaston Encinas Valverde | UDP | MIR | Chuquisaca |
| Gerardo Mercado Mendoza | ADN | ADN | Beni |
| Germán Condori Quispe | UDP | MNRI | La Paz |
| Germán Gutiérrez Ortega | MNR-A | MNR | Chuquisaca |
| Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada | MNR-A | MNR | Cochabamba |
| Grover Villegas Gallo | MNR-A | MNR | Potosí |
| Guido Capra Gemio | UDP | CERNA | La Paz |
| Guido Rodríguez Parada | MNR-A | MNR | Beni |
| Guillermo Bedregal Gutiérrez | MNR-A | MNR | La Paz |
| Guillermo Capobianco Rivera | UDP | MIR | Santa Cruz |
| Guillermo Ortiz Aponte | ADN | ADN | Beni |
| Guillermo Richter Ascimani | MNR-A | PCML | Beni |
| Gustavo Villegas Cortez | MNR-A | MNR | Potosí |
| Hans Dellien Salazar | MNR-A | PDC | Beni |
| Heberto Castedo Lladó | ADN | ADN | Santa Cruz |
| Hernán Melgar Justiniano | UDP | PCB | Beni |
| Hernán Peralta | MNR-A | MNR | Potosí |
| Hugo Flores Salvador | MNR-A | MNR | Santa Cruz |
| Hugo Velasco Rosales | MNR-A | MNR | Santa Cruz |
| Humberto Siles Miranda | ADN | FSB-M | Oruro |
| Jaime Taborga Torrico | PS-1 | PS-1 | Cochabamba |
| Jaime Tapia Alípaz | ADN | FSB-M | La Paz |
| Jaime Villegas Duran | MNR-A | MNR | Potosí |
| Javier Campero Paz | MNR-A | MNR | Tarija |
| Jesús Egüez Ruiz | ADN | ADN | Beni |
| Jhonny Bernal | UDP | MNRI | La Paz |
| Jorge Agreda Valderrama | MNR-A | PDC | Cochabamba |
| Jorge Alderete Rosales | MNR-A | MNR | Santa Cruz |
| Jorge Arteaga Flores | MNR-A | MNR | Pando |
| Jorge Justiniano Balderrama | MNR-A | MNR | Pando |
| José Fellman Velarde | MNR-A | MNR | La Paz |
| José Luis Harb Alvárez | MNR-A | MNR | La Paz |
| José María Palacios López | PS-1 | PS-1 | La Paz |
| José Mario Serrate Paz | APIN | FSB | Santa Cruz |
| José Ortuste Quiroga | MNR-A | PDC | Chuquisaca |
| José Zegarra Cerruto | APIN | MARC | La Paz |
| Juan José Salazar Terceros | MNR-A | MNR | Santa Cruz |
| Julio Quiñones Flores | MNR-A | MNR | Potosí |
| Julio Tumiri Apaza | MITKA | MITKA | La Paz |
| Justiniano Ninavia Colque | MNR-A | PCML | Oruro |
| Justo Pérez García | PS-1 | PS-1 | Potosí |
| Leopoldo Fernández Ferreira | ADN | ADN | Pando |
| Leopoldo López Cossío | UDP | MIR | Tarija |
| Leopoldo Vaca Chuquipera | UDP | POR-TP | Pando |
| Lidia Gueiler Tejada | MNR-A | PRIN-G | La Paz |
| Lino Pérez Estrada | ADN | ADN | Potosí |
| Luis Fernández Fagalde | UDP | MIR | Potosí |
| Luis Fernando Valle Quevedo | ADN | ADN | La Paz |
| Luis Sandoval Morón | UDP | MIN | Santa Cruz |
| Luis Saucedo Justiniano | MNR-A | PDC | Santa Cruz |
| Macabeo Chila Prieto | MNR-A | MRTK-Chila | Oruro |
| Manuel Huayllas Rosales | MNR-A | MNR | Chuquisaca |
| Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz | PS-1 | PS-1 | Cochabamba |
| Marcos Domic Ruiz | UDP | PCB | La Paz |
| Mario Aguilar Zenteno | ADN | FSB-M | Cochabamba |
| Mario Amézaga Antezana | PUB | PUB | Cochabamba |
| Mario Morales | UDP | MNRI | Oruro |
| Mario Suárez Montero | MNR-A | PDC | Santa Cruz |
| Medardo Irigoyen | APIN | MARC | Oruro |
| Miguel Ramírez Navarro | MNR-A | MNR | Chuquisaca |
| Miguel Torrico Baptista | ADN | MNR-J | Cochabamba |
| Oscar Bonifaz Gutiérrez | MNR-A | PDC | Potosí |
| Oscar García Suárez | UDP | MIN | Cochabamba |
| Oscar Justiniano Mercado | ADN | MNR-J | Santa Cruz |
| Oscar Lazcano Henry | ADN | ADN | Tarija |
| Oscar Salas Moya | UDP | PCB | Oruro |
| Oscar Vega López | UDP | MNRI | Cochabamba |
| Pablo Steimbach Moreno | MNR-A | MNR | Santa Cruz |
| Pedro Canaviri Limachi | UDP | MRTK | Potosí |
| Pedro Paputsakis Flores | MNR-A | PCML | Tarija |
| Ramiro Velasco Romero | UDP | MPLN | La Paz |
| Raúl Guzmán-Moreira | UDP | MNRI | Potosí |
| Raúl Pérez Alcalá | MNR-A | MNR | Potosí |
| Raúl Zabalaga Mendoza | MNR-A | PRA | Potosí |
| René de la Barra | UDP | MNRI | La Paz |
| Reynaldo Barrón Escóbar | MNR-A | MNR | Chuquisaca |
| Roberto Feryre Elías | ADN | ADN | La Paz |
| Rubén Sánchez Valdivia | UDP | ALIN | Cochabamba |
| Sabino Tito Atahuichi Ticona | UDP | PS-Atahuichi | Oruro |
| Simón Reyes Rivera | UDP | PCB | Potosí |
| Waldo Cerruto Calderón | ADN | ADN | La Paz |
| Walter Martínez Iglesias | UDP | MNRI | La Paz |
| Wenceslao Inarra Fernández | MNR-A | MNR | Tarija |
| Willy Sandoval Morón | UDP | MNRI | Chuquisaca |
| Willy Vargas Vacaflor | ADN | ADN | Chuquisaca |

## Chamber of Senators

| Senator | Alliance | Party | Department |
| Abel Ayoroa Argandoña | UDP | MNRI | La Paz |
| Benjamín Miguel Harb | MNR-A | PDC | La Paz |
| Ciro Villavicencio Ruiz | MNR-A | MNR | Pando |
| Edil Sandoval Morón | UDP | MNRI | Santa Cruz |
| Félix Vargas Lucero | MNR-A | PDC | Oruro |
| Fernando Baptista Gumucio | UDP | MNRI | Cochabamba |
| Genaro Frontanilla Vistas | MNR-A | MNR | Oruro |
| Gualberto Claure Ortuño | UDP | MNRI | Cochabamba |
| Guillermo Tineo Leygue | ADN | ADN | Beni |
| Gustavo Aguirre Pérez | ADN | ADN | Tarija |
| Jorge Alvarez Plata | UDP | MNRI | La Paz |
| Jorge Kolle Cueto | UDP | PCB | Chuquisaca |
| Jorge Selum Vaca Diez | MNR-A | PCML | Beni |
| José Luis Roca García | MNR-A | PDC | Pando |
| Julio Garrett Aillón | MNR-A | MNR | Chuquisaca |
| Leónidas Sánchez Arana | MNR-A | MNR | Potosí |
| Luis Añez Alvarez | MNR-A | MNR | Beni |
| Luis Pelaez Rioja | UDP | MNRI | Oruro |
| Miguel Trigo Rodríguez | MNR-A | MNR | Santa Cruz |
| Óscar Zamora Medinaceli | MNR-A | PCML | Tarija |
| Pánfilo Yapu | UDP | MIR | Potosí |
| Pedro Maillard Porras | MNR-A | MNR | Santa Cruz |
| Raúl Ruíz Gonzales | MNR-A | PCML | Potosí |
| Rubén Julio Castro | ADN | MNR-J | Pando |
| Víctor Quinteros Rasguido | MNR-A | PRA | Chuquisaca |
| Wálter Guevara Arze | MNR-A | PRA | Cochabamba |
| William Bluske Castellanos | MNR-A | MNR | Tarija |

## Presidents of the National Congress

| President | Alliance | Party | | |
| Wálter Guevara Arze | MNR-A | PRA | August 1979 | August 1979 |
| Lidia Gueiler Tejada | MNR-A | PRIN-G | August 1979 | November 1979 |
| Wálter Guevara Arze | MNR-A | PRA | 1980 | July 1980 |

## Presidents of the Chamber of Senators

| President | Alliance | Party | | |
| Wálter Guevara Arze | MNR-A | PRA | August 1979 | August 1979 |
| Leónidas Sánchez Arana | MNR-A | MNR | August 1979 | 1980 |
| Wálter Guevara Arze | MNR-A | PRA | 1980 | July 1980 |

## Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies

| President | Alliance | Party | | |
| Lidia Gueiler Tejada | MNR-A | PRIN-G | August 1979 | November 1979 |
| José Zegarra Cerruto | APIN | MARC | November 1979 | July 1980 |
UDP – Democratic and Popular Union (Unidad Democratica y Popular). Electoral alliance formed by Nationalist Revolutionary Movement of the Left, MNRI; Communist Party of Bolivia, PCB; Revolutionary Left Movement, MIR; Tupaj Katari Revolutionary Movement, MRTK; Movement of the National Left, MIN; Popular Movement for National Liberation, MPLN; Alliance of the National Left, ALIN; Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left, PRIN; Revolutionary Workers Party Trotskyist-Posadist, POR-TP; Socialist Party-Sabino Tito Atahuichi, PS-Atahuichi; Organization of Revolutionary Unity, OUR; Center for the Study of Natural Resources, CERNA; Revolutionary Party of the Workers of Bolivia, PRTB.
MNR-A – Revolutionary Nationalist Movement-Alliance (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario-Alianza). Electoral alliance formed by Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, MNR; Tupaj Katari Revolutionary Movement-Chila, MRTK-Chila (faction led by Macabeo Chila); Communist Party of Bolivia (Marxist–Leninist), PCML; Christian Democratic Party, PDC; Revolutionary Party of the National Left – Gueiler, PRIN-G; Authentic Revolutionary Party, PRA (historical faction led by Walter Guevara Arce).
ADN – Nationalist Democratic Action.
FSB-M – Bolivian Socialist Falange-Moreira (faction led by Gaston Moreira Ostria).
PRA-R – Authentic Revolutionary Party- Ríos (faction led by Jorge Ríos Gamarra).
MNR-J – Revolutionary Nationalist Movement-Julio, (faction led by Rubén Julio Castro).
PS-1 – Socialist Party-One.
APIN – Popular Alliance for National Integration (Alianza Popular de Integración Nacional). Electoral alliance formed by Revolutionary Agrarian Movement of the Bolivian Peasantry, MARC; Bolivian Socialist Falange, FSB (faction led by Mario Gutiérrez Gutiérrez); Christian Democratic Union, UDC.
MITKA – Indian Movement Tupaj Katari.
PUB – Bolivian Union Party.