Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé

Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé (born March 2, 1956) is the current president of the transitional government of Bolivia; prior to that appointment he was the chief justice of the Supreme Court. – (português)

A political crisis caused by popular unrest over the privatization of the natural gas industry led former president Carlos Mesa to offer his resignation to Congress. After Hormando Vaca Diez and Mario Cossío, presidents of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, respectively, declined the post, Rodríguez - as head of the judiciary and fourth in the line of succession - became the country's new president on June 10, 2005. His inauguration was welcomed by protestors, who see Rodríguez as one of the few national figures not involved in previous political troubles.

Born in Cochabamba in 1956, Rodríguez is a lawyer and holds a master's degree in public administration. He studied law at the Universidad Mayor de San Simón in Cochabamba and obtained his master's degree at Harvard University in the United States.

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