17 Facts About Wilma Alanoca

Antonia Wilma Alanoca Mamani was born on 5 July 1978 and is a Bolivian journalist, politician, and television presenter who served as minister of cultures and tourism from 2017 to 2019.

Wilma Alanoca was born on 5 July 1978 in La Paz, the youngest of four children of neighborhood leader Rosendo Alanoca and merchant Margarita Mamani.

Wilma Alanoca began her primary studies in La Paz in 1984.

In 1990, when she was 12 years old, the Alanoca family moved to the city of El Alto.

Wilma Alanoca continued her studies there, leaving high school in 1996.

Wilma Alanoca studied social communication at the Higher University of San Andres, graduating as a journalist in 2009.

Wilma Alanoca began her career in media in 2004, while still a university student, appearing on the Continental Radio program Compartiendo la tarde.

Wilma Alanoca then worked for a time at Radio Fides, on the program Radio en Vivo con el periodista Andres Rojas before reading news on the Unitepc channel, and later on Pacenisima de Television.

Wilma Alanoca was on the state channel Bolivia TV with a small business program called Pymes y Mypes.

Wilma Alanoca became the communications director of the COTEL company, although only for a short time.

In 2011, Wilma Alanoca joined Red ATB, where she initially covered the news from El Alto, and then as a news anchor.

In 2015, Wilma Alanoca declared herself a candidate of the MAS-IPSP led by Evo Morales.

Wilma Alanoca was a member of the council from 2015 to 2017.

On 29 December 2020, it was announced that Wilma Alanoca would seek to be elected to her former position of Councilor of El Alto as the MAS candidate for the 2021 Bolivian regional elections.

Wilma Alanoca's candidacy was challenged by members of MAS itself who did not want to run a former minister when, while she was in asylum, there were other people who had resisted the transitional government in El Alto.

On 1 March 2018, during the delivery of household gas in El Alto on the occasion of her anniversary, Minister Wilma Alanoca was verbally assaulted by President Morales.

Wilma Alanoca was harshly criticized by the population for degrading women with the following phrase:.