Global InformationAncelma Perlacios information
Ancelma Perlacios | |
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 Official portrait, 2018 | |
| Senator for La Paz | |
| In office 18 January 2015 – 3 November 2020 | |
| Substitute | Giovani Carlo |
| Preceded by | Fidel Surco |
| Succeeded by | Cecilia Requena |
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| Born | Ancelma Perlacios Peralta 26 July 1964 Chicaloma, La Paz, Bolivia |
| Political party | Movement for Socialism |
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Ancelma Perlacios Peralta (born 26 July 1964) is a Bolivian cocalera activist, politician, and trade unionist who served as senator for La Paz from 2015 to 2020.
Born in the rural community of Chicaloma, Perlacios ascended the ranks of women's union leadership throughout the mid-2000s and early 2010s, starting at the local and later municipal levels before reaching the national level as part of the Bartolina Sisa Confederation. Her membership there facilitated her inclusion on the Movement for Socialism's 2014 electoral list, through which she was elected to the Senate.
Perlacios was the first-ever Afro-Bolivian to serve in the Senate. She shares, together with Andrea Bonilla, the distinction of being one of the first two Afro-Bolivian women in parliament, and is one of just three overall, after Jorge Medina. Perlacios's tenure coincided with rising conflict between her party and the Yungas-based cocaleros she represented, in which she ultimately sided with the former. She was not nominated for reelection.