10 Facts About Julia Ramos

Julia Damiana Ramos Sanchez was born on 12 April 1963 and is a Bolivian nurse and politician.

Julia Ramos was a Plurinational deputy from 2006 to 2009, and Minister of Land and Rural Development from 2009 to 2010, during the first government of Evo Morales.

Julia Ramos was born in the city of Tarija on 12 April 1963.

Julia Ramos continued with her education, studying nursing at the Universidad Juan Misael Saracho, where she became a member of the executive committee of the Local University Foundation.

Julia Ramos began her political career in small community posts.

Between 1985 and 1989, beginning when she was 22 years old, Ramos held the positions of secretary of education and then secretary of health of the Single Trade Union Federation of Peasant Workers of Tarija.

Julia Ramos joined the militant Movement for Socialism, a party for which she was a candidate for deputy in the 2002 general election, but was not elected.

Three years later, in the following 2005 general election, Julia Ramos was a candidate for deputy for MAS.

On 24 January 2010, Julia Ramos was replaced in her position as minister by Nemesia Achacollo, a Chapare union leader.

Five years after leaving the ministry, in 2015, Julia Ramos was linked by the courts to the Indigenous Development Fund corruption case.