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Nila Heredia Miranda
Minister of Health and Sports
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 May 2010
MinisterEvo Morales
Preceded bySonia Polo
Vice Minister of Health and Health Promotion
In office
February 2010 – 16 May 2010
Minister of Health and Sports
In office
January 2006 – January 2008
Succeeded byWálter Selum
Personal details
Born (1959-10-26) 26 October 1959 (age 65)
Uyuni, Potosí, Bolivia
OccupationMedical school docent, Administrator

Nila Heredia Miranda (born in Uyuni, Potosí) is a former medical school anatomy professor and administrator, former leftist militant, and Bolivia's Minister of Health and Sports, a position she has occupied twice.[1]

In the 1970s, Heredia was a member of the Revolutionary Workers' Party of Bolivia and the National Liberation Army during the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer.[2] She was detained by government forces on 2 April 1976, and according to a petition filed with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, tortured in the prefectural headquarters in Cochabamba and held in Viacha prison.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Posesionan a Nila Heredia como Ministra de Salud". Los Tiempos. 2010-05-17. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
  2. ^ Ministry of the Presidency. Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia. "Gabinete de ministros - Ministra de Salud". Retrieved 2011-04-09.
  3. ^ Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (6 March 1979). "CASO 2721 BOLIVIA NILA HEREDIA MIRANDA MÉDICA". Retrieved 9 April 2011.


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