Néstor Guzmán Villarroel

Who is Néstor Guzmán Villarroel?

Néstor Guzman Villarroel is a Bolivian politician and trade unionist. A tailor and farmer by profession, he became the press and propaganda secretary of the trade union in Chaguarmayu in 1984, then becoming the relations secretary of the Chaguarmayu trade union the following year. Between 1986 and 1988 he was the general secretary of the Panamá trade union sub-centre, then becoming the general secretary of the Aiquile-Campero Provincial Trade Union Centre. Between 1995 and 1997 he was secretary of tracts of the Federación Unica de Trabajadores Campesinos de Cochabamba.

In 1997 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, as the United Left candidate in the single-member constituency No. 29. Roberto Céspedes Franco was his alternate.

In the 2005 parliamentary election, Guzmán Villarroel topped the Indigenous Pachakuti Movement list for the proportional representation vote in Cochabamba.