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Carlos Mesa
Sign in to saveAlso known as Carlos Diego Mesa Gisbert, Carlos Mesa Gisbert, Carlos D. Mesa Gisbert, Carlos de Mesa, Carlos Diego de Mesa Gisbert
Vice President of Bolivia from 2002 to 2003 and President of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005
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Carlos Mesa is a Bolivian politician, historian, writer, and journalist. Born in La Paz in 1953, he has served as both the Vice President and President of Bolivia. His political affiliations have included the Revolutionary Left Front, Civic Community, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, and independent status. He received the National Order of Merit and was educated at the Higher University of San Andrés.
Mesa’s work spans politics, history, journalism, and documentary film. He speaks Bolivian Spanish and Spanish. Among his written works are *Los Dueños de la Palabra* and *Barcelone insolite et secrète*. He is the son of Teresa Gisbert Carbonell.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Los Dueños de la Palabra
- Barcelone insolite et secrète
- Barcelone insolite et secrète
- Barcelone insolite et secrète
- Barcelone insolite et secrète
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- XGBoost
· 2016 · cited 44,900x
- Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation
· 1992 · cited 21,700x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
- The Hallmarks of Aging
· 2013 · cited 14,100x
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Quotes
- “Our maximum responsibility is to act with intellectual honesty in what we believe and to work in a dialectical process in which the end result is something we build, not something we just destroy.”
- “A few days ago, my country lived through serious episodes of violence, which have forced us to reflect. We are aware of the fact that the last 21 years of democracy — the longest uninterrupted period in our history — are at stake as we face the legitimate pressure exercised by the marginalized sectors of our society, who deserve our attention. [...] Loss of trust in these essential elements of democracy is one of the greatest dangers to the future of our society.”
- “Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.”
- “We are at the beginning, on the threshold of a new time and that new time has to have a new leadership.”
- “[The vice presidency is] "the most stupid position of all" [...]. An office with a single objective, that of succession, with few clear powers.”
- “I am not a person that you can handle as you please, I am not going to respond to things that I do not believe in, I am not going to accept doing things that I do not think I should do. I am not controllable, Carlos.”
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Key facts
- Vice president
- Vacant
- Preceded by
- Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
- Succeeded by
- Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé
- President
- Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
- Born
- Carlos Diego de Mesa Gisbert , ( 1953-08-12 ) 12 August 1953 (age 72) , La Paz , Bolivia
- Party
- Revolutionary Left Front (2018–present)
- Other political affiliations
- Independent (before 2018)
- Spouses
- Patricia Flores Soto ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1975 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1978 ) Elvira Salinas Gamarra ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 28 March 1980</span>"}]]}'>1980 )
- Children
- Borja Ignacio Guiomar
- Parents
- José de Mesa Teresa Gisbert
- Education
- San Calixto School San Estanislao de Kotska School
- Alma mater
- Complutense University of Madrid Higher University of San Andrés
- Occupation
- Historian journalist politician
- Awards
- List of awards and honors
- Website
- carlosdmesa .com bibliotecavirtualcarlosdmesa .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Carlos Diego de Mesa Gisbert ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos ˈðjeɣo ˈmesa xisˈβeɾt] ; born 12 August 1953) is a Bolivian historian, journalist, and politician who served as the 63rd president of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005. As an independent politician, he had previously served as the 37th vice president of Bolivia from 2002 to 2003 under Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and was the international spokesman for Bolivia's lawsuit against Chile in the International Court of Justice from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Revolutionary Left Front, he has served as leader of Civic Community, the largest opposition parliamentary group in Bolivia, since 2018.
Born in La Paz, Mesa began a twenty-three-year-long journalistic career after graduating from university. He rose to national fame in 1983 as the host of De Cerca, in which he interviewed prominent figures of Bolivian political and cultural life. His popular appeal led former president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) to invite him to be his running mate in the 2002 presidential election. Though Mesa's moderate left-wing sympathies contrasted with centre-right policies of the MNR, he accepted the offer, running as an independent in a hotly contested electoral campaign. The Sánchez de Lozada-Mesa ticket won the election, and, on 6 August, Mesa took charge of a largely ceremonial office that carried with it few formal powers save for guaranteeing the constitutional line of succession. Shortly into his term, conflict between Sánchez de Lozada and Mesa arose. By October 2003, the increasingly tense situation surrounding the ongoing gas conflict caused a definitive break in relations between the president and vice president, leading the latter to announce his withdrawal from government after clashes between protesters and military personnel led to several deaths. Crucially, Mesa opted not to resign from his vice-presidential post and succeeded to the presidency upon Sánchez de Lozada's resignation.
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