Sacha Llorenti

Sacha Sergio Llorenti Solíz
Llorenti in 2013
Secretary General of ALBA
Incumbent
Assumed office
14 December 2020
Preceded byDavid Choquehuanca
Permanent Representative of Bolivia to the United Nations
In office
5 September 2012 – 10 November 2019
PresidentEvo Morales
Preceded byPablo Solón Romero
Succeeded byRubén Dario Cuellar
Minister of Government
In office
January 2010 – 27 September 2011
MinisterEvo Morales
Preceded byAlfredo Rada
Succeeded byWilfredo Chávez
Vice Minister of Coordination with Social Movements
In office
January 2007 – January 2010
Personal details
Born (1972-03-13) 13 March 1972 (age 52)
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Political partyMAS-IPSP
OccupationHuman rights advocate, diplomat, politician

Sacha Sergio Llorenti Soliz (born 13 March 1972)[1] is the Secretary General of ALBA–TCP[2] and the previous Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Ambassador of Bolivia to the United Nations from September 2012 until November 2019. He is a former Bolivian government official, published author and past president (for two years) of Bolivia's Permanent Assembly for Human Rights.

Biography

Llorenti was born on 13 March 1972. He holds a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Saint Andres and the University of Aquino Bolivia.[1]

From 2003 to 2005, Llorenti served as President of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights. In 2005, he was Dean of the Faculty of Social and Humanistic Sciences at the University of Aquino Bolivia.[1]

He served as Vice Minister for Coordination with Social Movements and Civil Society between 2007 and 2010, and was elevated to Minister of Government (or Interior Minister) in January 2010, until September 2011.[1]

In 2011, representatives from the Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS) were marching from Trinidad to La Paz in order to protest a planned highway through their land when they were violently intercepted by police.[3] Llorenti's capacity as Minister of Government led to his indictment, and after an initial acquittal, several procedural irregularities led an appeal to the Constitutional Court. It was blocked due to an administrative technicality.[4] As of July, 2018, no authority has been held responsible for the repression, and protests continue against the former Minister.[5]

In 2012 Llorenti was promoted to Permanent Representative of Bolivia to the United Nations.[1]

Llorenti was a president of Group of 77, and contributed to the UN assembly approval of creation of debt restructuring framework for foreign sovereign debt in an intention to end poverty.[6] He was also the Chair of the United Nations General Assembly Ad Hoc Committee on Sovereign Debt Restructuring Process that resulted in the adoption of UNGA resolution 69/319 that approved the nine UN principles for sovereign debt restructuring processes.[7]

In November 2019. the new interim Bolivian Government confirmed the termination of all ambassadors and representatives appointed by the removed president Evo Morales, including Llorenti.

On 14 December 2020 at the XVIII Ordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA–TCP) he was unanimously elected Secretary General of ALBA–TCP[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "New Permanent Representative of Bolivia Presents Credentials". UN. 19 September 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  2. ^ v2019, ABI-Agencia Boliviana de Información. "Sacha Llorenti es elegido por unanimidad como el nuevo secretario general del ALBA-TCP". ABI - Agencia Bolivianan de Información. v2019. (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 December 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "Bolivia: Two Years After Chaparina, Still No Answers".
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 July 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "EL DEBER, Portal de noticias de Bolivia y el mundo".
  6. ^ "UN assembly approves creation of debt restructuring framework". buenosairesherald.com. 9 September 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  7. ^ "Options Lacking to Help Developing Countries Avoid Debt Crises". globalissues.org. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  8. ^ "Sacha Llorenti es elegido por unanimidad como el nuevo secretario general del ALBA-TCP". ABI (in Spanish). 14 December 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.