Centa Lothy Rek Lopez was born on 27 August 1954 and is a Bolivian novelist, politician, and psychoanalyst who served as senator for Santa Cruz from 2010 to 2015 and since 2020.
16 Facts About Centa Rek
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Together with her colleague, German Antelo, Centa Rek sought to build the foundations of a new political party, but opposition infighting caused the project to flounder.
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Centa Rek was born on 27 August 1954 in San Jose de Chiquitos, a small town situated in eastern Santa Cruz's tropical Chiquitania region.
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On her father's side, Centa Rek is of ethnic German descent; the family's presence in the region dates back to her grandparents, who first settled the Chiquitania with their children, where they developed extensive careers in agriculture and cattle ranching.
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Centa Rek was raised in her birth town of San Jose de Chiquitos alongside five siblings as well as a few rural girls her parents hosted.
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Centa Rek completed her final year of secondary in Santa Cruz de la Sierra before traveling to the United States as part of a cultural exchange program.
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Centa Rek later transferred to the University of Cordoba, where she graduated as a clinical psychoanalyst.
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Since then, Centa Rek has published a total of six novels, the most recent being Abril, as well as a number of short story anthologies.
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Centa Rek wrote as a columnist for various press outlets, directed and edited the children's magazine Alfenique, and spent six years co-hosting the political analysis show Rayos X Between 2005 and 2009, she directed the Santa Cruz-based publication La Estrella del Oriente.
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In 2009, despite her lack of party affiliation, Centa Rek accepted an invitation on the part of the opposition National Convergence alliance to contest a seat in the Chamber of Senators in representation of Santa Cruz.
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Amid shifting alliances and the collapse of the Broad Front, Centa Rek was not nominated for reelection.
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Centa Rek's tune changed in the wake of that year's political crisis.
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In that vein, after spending a term on the Senate's directorate, Centa Rek spent the ensuing years of her tenure operating within committees and commissions dealing with the country's territorial organization.
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Centa Rek later remarried and has one daughter with her new spouse, in addition to the two sons from her previous relationship.
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One of her sons, Alejandro Duran Centa Rek, served on the board of directors of the Santa Cruz Rural Electrification Cooperative and was president of the CRE Foundation, the operational arm of the organization's many social responsibility programs.