Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein

| image = Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein Antelo (Official Photo, 2012) Chamber of Senators of Bolivia.png

| caption = Official portrait, 2012

| alt = Headshot of Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein

| office = Senator for Beni

| 1blankname = {{Nowrap|Substitute}}

| 1namedata = Magda Arze

| term_start = 19 January 2010

| term_end = 18 January 2015

| predecessor = {{ill|v=ib|Wálter Guiteras|es|Walter Guiteras}}

| successor = Yerko Núñez

| office1 = {{Br list|Member of the Chamber of Deputies|from Beni circumscription 64}}

| 1blankname1 = {{Nowrap|Substitute}}

| 1namedata1 = {{ublist|Guido Destre {{Nowrap|(2002–2006)}}|Franklin Valdivia {{Nowrap|(2006–2010)}}}}

| term_start1 = 2 August 2002

| term_end1 = 19 January 2010

| predecessor1 = Sandro Giordano

| successor1 = Einar Gozalves

| constituency1 = Riberalta

| birth_name = Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein Antelo

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|01|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Riberalta, Beni, Bolivia

| death_date =

| death_place =

| relatives = {{#ifexist:Sandro Giordano|Sandro Giordano {{Nowrap|(brother-in-law)}}}}

| party = Revolutionary Nationalist Movement

| occupation = {{Hlist|Businessman|politician|rancher}}

}}

Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein Antelo (born 28 January 1961) is a Bolivian businessman, politician, and rancher who served as senator for Beni from 2010 to 2015. A member of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, he previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from Beni, representing circumscription 64 from 2002 to 2010.

Born into a wealthy upper-class family from Riberalta, Sonnenschein's early career was characteristic of many of Beni's economic elite. He held executive positions in the most relevant corporate entities handling the department's export and cattle industries and played prominent roles in the civic sector, including chairing Riberalta's civic committee as well as its major utility cooperatives and sports associations.

Having served in leadership within the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement's Riberalta affiliate, Sonnenschein won a seat representing the municipality in the Chamber of Deputies in 2002. Reelected to a second term in 2005, he survived the party's dramatic fall from grace, a decline that, by 2009, led him to join National Convergence for his final electoral bid for Senate. Despite serving a collective twelve years between his three parliamentary terms, Sonnenschein was conspicuously absent most of the time, preferring to remain in his home region than deal with the goings on at the capital.

Early life and career

Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein was born on 28 January 1961 in Riberalta to a regionally influential family of wealthy Amazonian landowners.{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|p=570}} Descended from European emigrants that first settled northern Beni during the early 20th-century rubber boom,{{sfn|Rea Galloso|2005|pp=31–33}} Sonnenschein's family comprises part of the Riberalta's economic elite;{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|pp=255; 570}} in the absence of the state apparatus, white-mestizo clans like Sonnenschein's exercised immense, semi-autonomous societal influence, projecting their power through the accumulation of capital and control over major local industries{{snd}}primarily the cattle ranching business.{{sfn|Rea Galloso|2005|pp=33–34}}{{efn-lg|Aside from Carlos Alberto, the Sonnenschein family's presence in northern Beni's business sector includes his brother, Herbert, president of the Riberalta Ranchers' Association; nephew, Carlos, vice president of the Beni Ranchers' Federation;{{sfnm|1a1=La Palabra del Beni|1y=2017|1p=6|2a1=FEGABENI|2y=2021}} and relative, Elizabeth, general manager of the Northeast Chamber of Exporters, among others.{{sfn|El Diario|2021}}}}

Owing to his affluent upbringing, Sonnenschein quickly rose to high-level positions within northern Beni's leading private and public entities. A graduate of Riberalta's prestigious Pedro Kramer School, he chaired the Northeast Chamber of Exporters from 1996 to 1998 and was vice president of its parent organization, the National Chamber of Exporters, from 1997 to 1999. In the civic sector, he directed the local electricity and telecommunications cooperatives, headed Riberalta's football and basketball associations, and was president of the Riberalta Civic Committee.{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|p=570}}

Chamber of Deputies

= Election =

{{Further|2002 Bolivian general election|2005 Bolivian general election}}

Among Beni's elites, participation in politics came as a natural evolution of their regional economic influence.{{sfn|Rea Galloso|2005|p=76}} After the democratic transition, many wealthy families aligned themselves with either Nationalist Democratic Action or the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR){{snd}}the parties most receptive to their demands and needs{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|p=255}}{{snd}}in effect creating a two-party system in which each front asserted its influence by proxy of competing clans; political conflicts translated to intrafamily ones,{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|p=268}} party membership drew more from familial tradition than ideological conviction,{{sfn|Rea Galloso|2005|p=83}} and the department's electoral bipolarity, in turn, prevented the emergence of significant counterweights to either side's socioeconomic hegemony.{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|p=268}}

By the turn of the century, Riberalta had established itself as an electoral bastion of the MNR,{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|p=570}} with the region's elites having monopolized northern Beni's most important executive and legislative positions.{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|p=255}} As chair of the local civic community, Sonnenschein enjoyed important political and lobbying connections{{sfn|Rea Galloso|2005|pp=72; 74–75}} and by 2001, he had been named deputy leader of the MNR's Riberalta affiliate.{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|p=570}} When in 2002 Sonnenschein's brother-in-law, Sandro Soriano, vacated his seat in the Chamber of Deputies to run for Senate, Sonnenschein was given the opportunity to contest the 64th district, in which he easily prevailed.{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|pp=255; 570}}

Reelected in 2005, Sonnenschein's political career survived the dramatic decline of the MNR{{snd}}hit hard by the stigma of its role in the 2003 gas conflict, the party saw its worst electoral showing in its organizational history. In part, Sonnenschein's success owed to the continued degree of support afforded to the MNR in one of its traditional regions of support: the Amazon, in particularly Beni, where it won its only senator and two single-member constituency victories{{snd}}including Sonnenschein. Even then, Sonnenschein's personal popularity cannot be discounted as a factor, especially since, on the presidential ballot, Michiaki Nagatani took second place in the same district.{{sfnm|1a1=Romero Ballivián|1y=2007|1pp=28–31|2a1=Romero Ballivián|2y=2018|2p=570}}

= Tenure =

As with many parliamentarians who hail from the northeastern departments, Sonnenschein's legislative tenure showed more interest in fortifying his local presence, popularity, and influence back home than in dealing with the various congressional conflicts and crises taking place in La Paz at any given time. Though the resulting regional recognition certainly benefitted him electorally,{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|p=570}} it came at the cost of actual political participation. By 2009, Sonnenschein had come to be noted for the high quantity of absences{{snd}}often unexcused{{snd}}he had accumulated throughout his two terms and seven years in office.{{sfn|Los Tiempos|2009}} Year on year, he consistently topped the list of the most absentee legislators, accruing Bs{{nbsp}}40,950 in sanctions between January and August 2007 alone.{{sfnm|1a1=Los Tiempos|1y=2008a|2a1=Los Tiempos|2y=2008b}} In all, according to Movement for Socialism deputy Martín Mollo, Sonnenschein missed ninety-eight percent of all sessions held during the 2006–2010 congressional term, leaving his legislative record largely a mystery and making him a true unknown among journalists and staffers in parliament.{{sfn|El Día|2009}}

= Commission assignments =

Finance Commission (Vice President: 2008–2010){{sfn|El Diario|2008}}
Economic Development Commission (Vice President: 2007–2008){{sfn|Noticias Fides|2007}}
Human Development Commission
Housing Committee (2003–2004){{sfn|Noticias Fides|2003}}
Labor and Employment Law Commission (Vice President: 2006–2007){{sfn|El Diario|2006}}
Defense and Armed Forces Commission (2004–2006){{sfnm|1a1=El Diario|1y=2004|2a1=Cámara de Diputados|2y=2006|2p=204}}
Sustainable Development Commission (Vice President: 2002–2003){{sfn|El Diario|2002}}

Chamber of Senators

= Election =

Weakened and in continuous political decline, the MNR entered the 2009 elections on its last legs; its presidential candidate, Germán Antelo, stayed in the race for just over a month, only to abruptly step down to support National Convergence (PPB-CN), the multi-front mega-coalition backing Manfred Reyes Villa. As a result, for the first time in decades, the MNR did not participate in a national election.{{sfn|El Diario|2009}} Amid the conspicuous absence of key party figures and political families from the electoral arena,{{sfn|El Deber|2009}} Sonnenschein was among the few MNR legislators to successfully secure a candidacy on one of the still-competing parliamentary lists{{snd}}nominated by CN to contest a seat in the Senate,{{sfn|La Razón|2009}} a position he won.{{sfn|El Día|2009}}

= Tenure =

In contrast to the rest of CN's parliamentary caucus{{snd}}eternally engulfed in constant infighting over the scant positions of power afforded to the minority bloc{{snd}}Sonnenschein preferred to play a more laid-back role throughout his senatorial tenure, as he had done in the two previous legislatures. In a scenario where his nine opposition colleagues frequently clashed with one another over which commission they ought to chair, Sonnenschein opted to spend the few sessions he actually attended working from one of the upper chamber's many committees{{snd}}positions "nobody fights for." When, by process of elimination, he was finally due to assume a seat on the Senate's powerful directorate in 2014, Sonnenschein ceded his right to colleague Jeanine Áñez.{{sfn|La Razón|2014}} When mentioning Sonnenschein in its recounting of CN's fraught parliamentary history, outlet La Razón put plainly: "Sonnenschein, who?".{{sfn|La Razón|2014|loc={{"'}}¿Sonnenschein, quién?', se preguntará alguien. Pues sí, Sonnenschein es un senador de CN{{nbsp}}... que asistió a pocas sesiones legislativas"}}

= Commission assignments =

Planning, Economic Policy, and Finance Commission
Financial, Monetary, Tax, and Insurance Policy Committee (Secretary: {{tooltip|2010|2 February 2010|dotted=no}}–{{tooltip|2014|27 January 2014|dotted=no}}){{sfnm|1a1=El Diario|1y=2010|2a1=Los Tiempos|2y=2011|3a1=Prensa Senado|3y=2012|4a1=Prensa Senado|4y=2013}}
Plural Economy, Production, Industry, and Industrialization Commission
Plural Economy, Productive Development, Public Works, and Infrastructure Committee (Secretary: {{tooltip|2014|27 January 2014|dotted=no}}–{{tooltip|2015|18 January 2015|dotted=no}}){{sfn|Prensa Senado|2014}}

Electoral history

class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;" \|+ {{sronly\|Electoral history of Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein}} ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2 \| Year ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2 \| Office ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" colspan=2 rowspan=2 \| Party ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" colspan=2 rowspan=2 \| Alliance ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" colspan=3 \| Votes ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2 \| Result ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2 \| {{abbr\|Ref\|Reference}}.
style="background-color:#EAECF0;" \| Total ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" \| % ! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" \| {{abbr\|P\|Position}}.
rowspan=2 style="background-color:#EAECF0;" \| 2002 \| rowspan=3 \| Deputy \| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{party color\|Revolutionary Nationalist Movement}};"\| \| rowspan=2 \| Revolutionary Nationalist Movement \| style="background-color:{{party color\|Revolutionary Nationalist Movement}};"\| \| rowspan=2 \| MNR-MBL \| rowspan=2 \| 8,770 \| rowspan=2 \| 45.71% \| rowspan=2 \| 1st \| rowspan=2 {{yes2\|Won}} \| rowspan=2 \| {{sfn\|Atlas Electoral\|2002}}
style="background-color:{{party color\|Free Bolivia Movement}};"\|
style="background-color:#EAECF0;" \| 2005 \| style="background-color:{{party color\|Revolutionary Nationalist Movement}};"\| \| Revolutionary Nationalist Movement \| colspan=2 {{CNone}} \| 6,857 \| 43.66% \| 1st \| {{yes2\|Won}} \| {{sfn\|Atlas Electoral\|2005}}
style="background-color:#EAECF0;" \| 2009 \| Senator \| style="background-color:{{party color\|Revolutionary Nationalist Movement}};"\| \| Revolutionary Nationalist Movement \| style="background-color:{{party color\|Plan Progress for Bolivia – National Convergence}};"\| \| National Convergence \| 85,631 \| 53.15% \| 1st \| {{yes2\|Won}} \| {{sfn\|Atlas Electoral\|2009}}{{efn-lg\|name=fn1\|Presented on an electoral list. The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.}}
style="background-color:#EAECF0;" colspan=11 \| Source: Plurinational Electoral Organ {{!}} [https://atlaselectoral.oep.org.bo/#/ Electoral Atlas]

class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"

|+ {{sronly|Electoral history of Carlos Alberto Sonnenschein}}

! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2 | Year

! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2 | Office

! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Party

! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Alliance

! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" colspan=3 | Votes

! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2 | Result

! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" rowspan=2 | {{abbr|Ref|Reference}}.

style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | Total

! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | %

! style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | {{abbr|P|Position}}.

rowspan=2 style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | 2002

| rowspan=3 | Deputy

| rowspan=2 style="background-color:{{party color|Revolutionary Nationalist Movement}};"|

| rowspan=2 | Revolutionary Nationalist Movement

| style="background-color:{{party color|Revolutionary Nationalist Movement}};"|

| rowspan=2 | MNR-MBL

| rowspan=2 | 8,770

| rowspan=2 | 45.71%

| rowspan=2 | 1st

| rowspan=2 {{yes2|Won}}

| rowspan=2 | {{sfn|Atlas Electoral|2002}}

style="background-color:{{party color|Free Bolivia Movement}};"|

style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | 2005

| style="background-color:{{party color|Revolutionary Nationalist Movement}};"|

| Revolutionary Nationalist Movement

| colspan=2 {{CNone}}

| 6,857

| 43.66%

| 1st

| {{yes2|Won}}

| {{sfn|Atlas Electoral|2005}}

style="background-color:#EAECF0;" | 2009

| Senator

| style="background-color:{{party color|Revolutionary Nationalist Movement}};"|

| Revolutionary Nationalist Movement

| style="background-color:{{party color|Plan Progress for Bolivia – National Convergence}};"|

| National Convergence

| 85,631

| 53.15%

| 1st

| {{yes2|Won}}

| {{sfn|Atlas Electoral|2009}}{{efn-lg|name=fn1|Presented on an electoral list. The data shown represents the share of the vote the entire party/alliance received in that constituency.}}

style="background-color:#EAECF0;" colspan=11 | Source: Plurinational Electoral Organ {{!}} [https://atlaselectoral.oep.org.bo/#/ Electoral Atlas]

References

= Notes =

= Footnotes =

= Works cited =

Online and list sources

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Digital and print publications

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{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|La Razón|2014}} |title=Convergencia Nacional: Las divergencias datan de enero de 2010 |trans-title=National Convergence: The Disputes Date Back to January 2010 |url=http://la-razon.com/suplementos/animal_politico/Convergencia-Nacional-divergencias-datan-enero_0_1990600975.html |work=La Razón |language=es |publication-place=La Paz |date=2 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209194336/http://la-razon.com/suplementos/animal_politico/Convergencia-Nacional-divergencias-datan-enero_0_1990600975.html |archive-date=9 February 2014 |access-date=18 August 2023}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|Los Tiempos|2008b}} |title=Descontarán Bs{{nbsp}}350 mes a diputados faltones |trans-title=Congress to Fine Missing Deputies Bs{{nbsp}}350 a Month |url=https://www.lostiempos.com/actualidad/nacional/20080909/descontaran-bs-350-mes-diputados-faltones |work=Los Tiempos |language=es |publication-place=Cochabamba |agency=Agencia de Noticias Fides |date=9 September 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411221620/https://www.lostiempos.com/actualidad/nacional/20080909/descontaran-bs-350-mes-diputados-faltones |archive-date=11 April 2023 |access-date=18 August 2023}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|Los Tiempos|2008a}} |title=Descuentos se van al psiquiátrico |trans-title=Fines Will Be Allocated to the Psychiatric Institute |url=https://www.lostiempos.com/actualidad/nacional/20080213/mas-controla-comision-derechos-humanos-diputados |work=Los Tiempos |language=es |publication-place=Cochabamba |agency=Agencia Boliviana de Información |date=13 February 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411221610/https://www.lostiempos.com/actualidad/nacional/20080213/mas-controla-comision-derechos-humanos-diputados |archive-date=11 April 2023 |access-date=18 August 2023}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|El Día|2009}} |title=Diputado más faltón volverá como senador del Beni |trans-title=Most Absent Deputy to Return As Senator for Beni |url=https://www.eldia.com.bo/noticia.php?id=22279&id_cat=1 |work=El Día |language=es |publication-place=Santa Cruz de la Sierra |date=18 December 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414192438/https://www.eldia.com.bo/noticia.php?id=22279&id_cat=1 |archive-date=14 April 2023 |access-date=18 August 2023}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|El Diario|2009}} |title=MNR atraviesa una de sus peores crisis |trans-title=The MNR Traverses One of Its Worst Crises |url=https://www.pub.eldiario.net/noticias/2009/2009_09/nt090909/2_07plt.php |work=El Diario |language=es |publication-place=La Paz |date=9 September 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414210148/https://www.pub.eldiario.net/noticias/2009/2009_09/nt090909/2_07plt.php |archive-date=14 April 2023 |access-date=18 August 2023}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|La Palabra del Beni|2017}} |title=Nacif decidio a defender liderazgo de la ganadería |trans-title=Nacif Decided to Defend Leadership of the Ranchers' Federation |url=https://archive.org/details/palabrabeni-10851/page/6 |work=La Palabra del Beni |language=es |publication-place=Trinidad |date=28 October 2017 |page=6 |access-date=18 August 2023 |via=the Internet Archive}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|El Diario|2021}} |title=Productores de castaña en busca de la certificación internacional |trans-title=Brazil Nut Producers Seek International Certification |url=https://www.eldiario.net/portal/2021/12/06/productores-de-castana-en-busca-de-la-certificacion-internacional |work=El Diario |language=es |publication-place=La Paz |date=6 December 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206092451/https://www.eldiario.net/portal/2021/12/06/productores-de-castana-en-busca-de-la-certificacion-internacional |archive-date=6 December 2021 |access-date=18 August 2023}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|La Razón|2009}} |title=La pugna entre Morales y la Media Luna vuelve a las urnas |trans-title=The Struggle Between Morales and the Media Luna Returns to the Polls |url=https://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20090909_006845/nota_249_875730.htm |work=La Razón |language=es |publication-place=La Paz |date=9 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912062420/https://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20090909_006845/nota_249_875730.htm |archive-date=12 September 2009 |access-date=18 August 2023}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|El Deber|2009}} |last=Rojas Carrasco |first=Aideé |date=9 September 2009 |title=El Congreso se renueva después de dos décadas |trans-title=Congress Is Renewed After Two Decades |url=https://eldeber.com.bo/2009/2009-09-09/vernotanacional.php?id=090909002425 |work=El Deber |language=es |publication-place=Santa Cruz de la Sierra |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914051855/https://eldeber.com.bo/2009/2009-09-09/vernotanacional.php?id=090909002425 |archive-date=14 September 2009 |access-date=18 August 2023}}

Academic journals

{{Cite journal |last=Romero Ballivián |first=Salvador |author-link=Salvador Romero Ballivián |date=January 2007 |title=La elección presidencial del 18 de diciembre de 2005 en Bolivia |trans-title=The Presidential Election of 18 December 2005 in Bolivia |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237034304 |journal=Cuadernos del CENDES|language=es |publication-place=Caracas |volume=24 |issue=65 |pages=1–37 |issn=2443-468X |oclc=5728518496 |via=ResearchGate}}

Books and encyclopedias

{{Cite book |last=Rea Galloso |first=Hilda |title=Elite carayana: Dominación estructural y modernización política en San Borja |url=https://archive.org/details/pieb_elite_carayana_dominacion_estructural_y_modernizacion_politica_en_san_borja |language=es |location=La Paz |publisher=Fundación PIEB; CIDDEBENI; IDIS-UMSA |isbn=99905-827-7-7 |year=2005 |oclc=68906624 |via=the Internet Archive}}
{{Cite book |last=Romero Ballivián |first=Salvador |author-link=Salvador Romero |year=2018 |editor-last=Quiroga Velasco |editor-first=Camilo |title=Diccionario biográfico de parlamentarios 1979–2019 |url=https://archive.org/details/diccionario-biografico-de-parlamentarios-1979-2019/page/570 |language=es |edition=2nd |location=La Paz |publisher=FUNDAPPAC; Fundación Konrad Adenauer |page=570 |isbn=978-99974-0-021-5 |oclc=1050945993 |via=the Internet Archive}}

External links

[https://www.vicepresidencia.gob.bo/spip.php?page=parlamentario&id_parlamentario=158 Parliamentary profile] Office of the Vice President {{inlang|es}}.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20140708190926/http://www.senado.bo/descripcion_de_senador/33-Carlos_Sonnenschein_Antelo Parliamentary profile] Chamber of Senators {{inlang|es}}. Archived from [http://www.senado.bo/descripcion_de_senador/33-Carlos_Sonnenschein_Antelo the original] on 8 July 2014.

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