Rodolfo Calle

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Rodolfo Calle

| image = Rodolfo Calle Inca. Official portrait, 2014. Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia. Original.png

| caption = Official portrait, 2014

| alt = Headshot of Rodolfo Calle

| office = {{Br list|Member of the Chamber of Deputies|from La Paz}}

| 1blankname = {{Nowrap|Substitute}}

| 1namedata = Maribel Vargas

| term_start = 19 January 2010

| term_end = 18 January 2015

| predecessor = Simón de la Barra

| successor = Víctor Ramírez

| constituency = Party list

| birth_name = Rodolfo Calle Inca

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|09|23|df=y}}

| birth_place = La Paz, Bolivia

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = Movement for Socialism

| alma_mater =

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

}}

Rodolfo Calle Inca (born 23 September 1964) is a Bolivian small businessman, lawyer, and politician who served as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz from 2010 to 2015.

The sole proprietor of a small enterprise, Calle gained prominence through organizational leadership among the capital's leather goods vendors. He served as vice president and then president of the Departmental Federation of Micro and Small Enterprises of La Paz and was secretary of minutes at the National Confederation of Micro and Small Enterprises of Bolivia.

A member of the Movement for Socialism, Calle represented the micro-enterprise sector on the party's parliamentary slate in the 2009 election and won a seat for La Paz Department in the Chamber of Deputies. He served only a single term and declined to seek reelection. He ceded his seat to Víctor Ramírez, who had been his constituent's original nominee the previous election.

Early life and career

= Early life and education =

Rodolfo Calle was born on 23 September 1964 in La Paz,{{sfn|Página Siete|2013a}} in a household of modest means involved in the leather goods business.{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|p=120}} His mother, Bonifacia Inca, was a homemaker and small trader who made and sold leather products{{snd}}mostly purses and the like. His father, Víctor Calle, served in the Armed Forces and died early during Rodolfo's childhood.{{sfnm|1a1=Gonzales Salas|1y=2013|1p=151|2a1=Vargas|2a2=Villavicencio|2y=2014|2p=46}}

Calle completed his primary and intermediate studies at the Holland and Félix Reyes Ortiz schools in La Paz and received his {{ill|Bachillerato|lt=secondary baccalaureate|es|preserve=yes}} from the city's Adventist institute.{{sfnm|1a1=Gonzales Salas|1y=2013|1p=151|2a1=Romero Ballivián|2y=2018|2p=120}} He studied law at the Higher University of San Andrés and the Bolivian Technological University,{{sfn|Vargas|Villavicencio|2014|p=46}} but was forced to disenroll due to family matters{{sfn|Gonzales Salas|2013|p=151}}{{snd}}although he would eventually return to complete the degree.{{sfnm|1a1=Página Siete|1y=2013a|2a1=Romero Ballivián|2y=2018|2p=120}} He also completed a diploma program in leadership at International IDEA.{{sfn|Vargas|Villavicencio|2014|p=46}}

= Small business career =

Calle was brought on as an assistant at his brother-in-law's handbag factory at age 12 in 1976 and apprenticed there until he turned 17 in 1981.{{sfnm|1a1=Gonzales Salas|1y=2013|1p=151|2a1=Romero Ballivián|2y=2018|2p=120}} He became the sole proprietor of his own manufacturing plant shortly thereafter. The business went under several times before he could accrue the capital to keep it afloat, but it eventually grew into a moderately sized small enterprise.{{sfn|Gonzales Salas|2013|p=151}}

Around the turn of the century, Calle began to take part in the guilds and employers' associations that make up the micro-enterprise sector. He became a figure of import among the city's leather goods merchants, serving as secretary of relations in the Union of Micro-entrepreneurs in Leather Goods between 2000 and 2002 before going on to found another organization, the Association of Micro-entrepreneurs in Leather Goods, which he led from 2006 to 2010.{{sfnm|1a1=Vargas|1a2=Villavicencio|1y=2014|1p=46|2a1=Romero Ballivián|2y=2018|2p=120}}

At the department level, Calle served as vice president of the Departmental Federation of Micro and Small Enterprises of La Paz from 2003 to 2009.{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|p=120}} He led the organization as its president during his term in parliament, circa 2010–2012,{{sfnm|1a1=Los Tiempos|1y=2010|2a1=El Diario|2y=2012}} and remained in leadership as a board member and secretary of relations in the years that followed.{{sfn|Vargas|Villavicencio|2014|p=46}} Those posts propelled him to the national level, and he capped his career as secretary of minutes for the National Confederation of Micro and Small Enterprises of Bolivia (CONAMYPE), an office he held from 2009 to 2011.{{sfnm|1a1=Vargas|1a2=Villavicencio|1y=2014|1p=46|2a1=Romero Ballivián|2y=2018|2p=120}}

Chamber of Deputies

= Election =

Like many members of the country's small merchant class, Calle sympathized with the policies of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) and became a member of the party early on.{{sfn|Vargas|Villavicencio|2014|p=46}}{{efn-lg|In contrast to big businesses and large multinationals, the MAS fostered tender relations with the micro and small business sector: its leaders bore little of the brunt of the party's anti-capitalist and anti-corporate rhetoric, and by contrast, shared the MAS's mistrust for the country's economic elite and sympathized with its support for marginalized groups{{snd}}from which they mostly originated.{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|pp=164; 592}}}} Despite belonging to the private sector, merchants often teetered on the edge of informality, lived in precarious economic positions, and relied heavily on state services.{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|pp=120; 485}} Since the 2005 election, the MAS had developed an ongoing alliance with the country's small employers' associations, who leveraged the support of their base for positions of power in government.{{sfn|Fornillo|2008|p=5}}

This pact solidified with the admission of CONAMYPE as a member organization of the MAS in 2006 and continued through 2009,{{sfn|La Prensa|2009}} when the party offered the micro-enterprise sector a quota of candidates on its parliamentary lists.{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|p=120}} In La Paz, the local federation initially elected Víctor Ramírez as its nominee, but procedural hurdles prevented him from running. In his stead, Calle{{snd}}who had been the runner-up candidate{{snd}}was given the nod to run.{{sfn|Gonzales Salas|2013|p=152}} He was included on the MAS party list in La Paz and was elected to represent the department in the Chamber of Deputies.{{sfnm|1a1=Vargas|1a2=Villavicencio|1y=2014|1p=46|2a1=Romero Ballivián|2y=2018|2p=120}}

= Tenure =

Assuming office on 19 January 2010,{{sfn|La Razón|2010}} Calle's legislative priorities centered on the needs of the micro-enterprise sector.{{sfn|Página Siete|2013b}} He collaborated with members of the national confederation to sponsor legislation in favor of small and medium-sized enterprises; already in 2010, a draft bill aimed at properly defining the legal status of micro-enterprises and regulating their access to markets was presented, to be developed in cooperation with local and small business federations.{{sfn|Los Tiempos|2010}} The legislation was not taken up during Calle's term,{{sfn|Página Siete|2013b}} but a finalized rendition of the bill was enacted into law by President Evo Morales in 2017.{{sfn|El Deber|2017}}

Calle contemplated remaining in politics beyond the end of his term but tempered expectations that he might seek reelection in 2014.{{sfn|Página Siete|2013b}} He went on to back the nomination of Ramírez{{snd}}the president of CONAMYPE, who had been the sector's original pick the previous cycle{{snd}}to fill his seat in the Chamber of Deputies.{{sfn|Oxígeno|2014}} Calle's term concluded on 18 January 2015,{{sfn|Opinión |2015}} and he resumed business activities at his factory.{{sfn|Romero Ballivián|2018|p=120}}

= Commission assignments =

Plural Justice, Prosecutor's Office, and Legal Defense of the State Commission
Prosecutor's Office and Legal Defense of the State Committee (2010–2011; Secretary: 2011–2013){{sfnm|1a1=Prensa Diputados|1y=2011|2a1=Prensa Diputados|2y=2012|3a1=Vargas|3a2=Villavicencio|3y=2014|3p=317}}
Education and Health Commission
Education Committee (2013–2014){{sfn|Vargas|Villavicencio|2014|p=314}}
Human Rights Commission (President: 2014–2015){{sfn|Vargas|Villavicencio|2014|p=309}}

Electoral history

class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%; text-align:center;" \|+ {{sronly\|Electoral history of Rodolfo Calle}} ! rowspan=2 \| Year ! rowspan=2 \| Office ! colspan=2 rowspan=2 \| Party ! colspan=3 \| Votes ! rowspan=2 \| Result ! rowspan=2 \| {{abbr\|Ref\|Reference}}.
Total ! % ! {{abbr\|P\|Position}}.
style="background-color:#EAECF0;" \| 2009 \| Deputy \| style="background-color:{{party color\|Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)}};" \| \| Movement for Socialism \| 1,099,259 \| 80.28% \| 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=9 \| Source: Plurinational Electoral Organ {{!}} [https://atlaselectoral.oep.org.bo/#/ Electoral Atlas]

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

|+ {{sronly|Electoral history of Rodolfo Calle}}

! rowspan=2 | Year

! rowspan=2 | Office

! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Party

! colspan=3 | Votes

! rowspan=2 | Result

! rowspan=2 | {{abbr|Ref|Reference}}.

Total

! %

! {{abbr|P|Position}}.

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

| Deputy

| style="background-color:{{party color|Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)}};" |

| Movement for Socialism

| 1,099,259

| 80.28%

| 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=9 | Source: Plurinational Electoral Organ {{!}} [https://atlaselectoral.oep.org.bo/#/ Electoral Atlas]

References

= Notes =

= Footnotes =

= Works cited =

Online and list sources

{{Cite web |ref={{harvid|Prensa Diputados|2011}} |title=Comisiones y Comités: Periodo Legislativo 2011–2012 |url=http://www.diputados.bo/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=59 |website=diputados.bo |language=es |publication-place=La Paz |publisher=Cámara de Diputados del Estado Plurinacional |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526205735/http://www.diputados.bo/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=59 |archive-date=26 May 2011 |access-date=28 October 2023}}
{{Cite web |ref={{harvid|Prensa Diputados|2012}} |title=Comisiones y Comités: Periodo Legislativo 2012–2013 |url=http://www.diputados.bo/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=59 |website=diputados.bo |language=es |publication-place=La Paz |publisher=Cámara de Diputados del Estado Plurinacional |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205103931/http://www.diputados.bo/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83&Itemid=59 |archive-date=5 February 2012 |access-date=28 October 2023}}
{{Cite web |ref={{harvid|Atlas Electoral|2009}} |title=Elecciones Generales 2009 {{!}} Atlas Electoral |url=https://atlaselectoral.oep.org.bo/#/subproceso/82/36/3 |website=atlaselectoral.oep.org.bo |language=es |location=La Paz |publisher=Órgano Electoral Plurinacional |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/QLVW0 |archive-date=21 February 2023 |access-date=17 October 2023}}

Digital and print publications

{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|El Deber|2017}} |title=Evo promulga ley para impulsar la micro y pequeña empresa |trans-title=Evo Enacts Law To Promote Micro and Small Businesses |url=https://eldeber.com.bo/economia/evo-promulga-ley-para-impulsar-la-micro-y-pequena-empresa_59297 |work=El Deber |language=es |publication-place=Santa Cruz de la Sierra |date=11 May 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231223074402/https://eldeber.com.bo/economia/evo-promulga-ley-para-impulsar-la-micro-y-pequena-empresa_59297 |archive-date=23 December 2023 |access-date=23 December 2023}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|El Diario|2012}} |title=Feria Multisectorial reúne a pequeños productores |trans-title=Multisectoral Fair Brings Together Small Manufacturers |url=https://www.eldiario.net/noticias/2012/2012_04/nt120412/nacional.php?n=51&-feria-multisectorial-reune-a-pequenios-productores |work=El Diario |language=es |publication-place=La Paz |date=12 April 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412210416/https://www.eldiario.net/noticias/2012/2012_04/nt120412/nacional.php?n=51&-feria-multisectorial-reune-a-pequenios-productores |archive-date=12 April 2012 |access-date=19 December 2023}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|Oxígeno|2014}} |title=Franklin Durán y el microempresario Víctor Ramírez son candidatos del MAS a diputados |trans-title=Franklin Durán and the Micro-Entrepreneur Víctor Ramírez Are MAS Candidates for Chamber of Deputies |url=https://www.oxigeno.bo/política/2280 |work=Oxígeno |language=es |publication-place=La Paz |date=10 July 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530170857/https://www.oxigeno.bo/política/2280 |archive-date=30 May 2023 |access-date=19 December 2023}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|La Razón|2010}} |title=El MAS estrena su rodillo en el primer día de la Asamblea |trans-title=The MAS Wields Its Dominance on the First Day of the Assembly |url=http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20100119_006977/nota_247_940115.htm |work=La Razón |language=es |publication-place=La Paz |date=19 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100128095011/http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20100119_006977/nota_247_940115.htm |archive-date=28 January 2010 |access-date=14 November 2023}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|La Prensa|2009}} |title=El MAS fortalece su estructura y pone condiciones a sus líderes |trans-title=The MAS Strengthens Its Structure and Places Conditions on Its Leaders |url=http://laprensa.com.bo/noticias/02-02-09/02_02_09_poli1.php |work=La Prensa |language=es |publication-place=La Paz |date=2 February 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206094523/http://laprensa.com.bo/noticias/02-02-09/02_02_09_poli1.php |archive-date=6 February 2009 |access-date=22 December 2023}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|Opinión |2015}} |title=Parlamentarios electos juran a sus cargos para la nueva legislatura |trans-title=Elected Legislators Sworn into New Legislature |url=http://opinion.com.bo/opinion/articulos/2015/0118/noticias.php?id=150580 |work=Opinión |language=es |publication-place=Cochabamba |agency=EFE |date=18 January 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630152843/http://opinion.com.bo/opinion/articulos/2015/0118/noticias.php?id=150580 |archive-date=30 June 2015 |access-date=11 August 2024}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|Página Siete|2013a}} |last=Peralta |first=Pablo |date=1 January 2013 |title=Rodolfo Calle: El sueldo de la Asamblea no es mucho, pero ayuda a la familia |trans-title=Rodolfo Calle: The Salary at the Assembly Is Not Much, but It Helps the Family |url=http://www.paginasiete.bo/2013-01-02/Nacional/Destacados/28Nac00101.aspx |work=Página Siete |language=es |publication-place=La Paz |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104183447/http://www.paginasiete.bo/2013-01-02/Nacional/Destacados/28Nac00101.aspx |archive-date=4 January 2013 |access-date=21 December 2023}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|Página Siete|2013b}} |last=Peralta |first=Pablo |date=1 January 2013 |title=Rodolfo Calle: Las PyMEs generan más empleo que las empresas |trans-title=Rodolfo Calle: SMEs Generate More Employment Than Corporations |url=http://www.paginasiete.bo/2013-01-02/Nacional/Destacados/28Nac00301-01.aspx |work=Página Siete |language=es |publication-place=La Paz |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106012313/http://www.paginasiete.bo/2013-01-02/Nacional/Destacados/28Nac00301-01.aspx |archive-date=6 January 2013 |access-date=21 December 2023}}
{{Cite news |ref={{harvid|Los Tiempos|2010}} |title=Presentan anteproyecto de Ley para Micro y Pequeñas Empresas |trans-title=CONAMYPE Presents Preliminary Bill for Micro and Small Enterprises |url=http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/economia/20101014/presentan-anteproyecto-de-ley-para-micro-y-pequenas_94220_181944.html |work=Los Tiempos |language=es |publication-place=Cochabamba |agency=Agencia Boliviana de Información |date=14 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101017050403/http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/economia/20101014/presentan-anteproyecto-de-ley-para-micro-y-pequenas_94220_181944.html |archive-date=17 October 2010 |access-date=21 December 2023}}

Academic journals

{{Cite web |last=Fornillo |first=Bruno |year=2008 |title=Encrucijadas del cogobierno en la Bolivia actual. Un análisis sociopolítico de la experiencia del Movimiento al Socialismo en el poder (2006–2007) |trans-title=Crossroads of Co-government in Contemporary Bolivia. A Sociopolitical Analysis of the Experience of the Movement for Socialism in Power (2006–2007) |url=https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/10345 |language=es |publication-place=Buenos Aires |publisher=Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales |oclc=1193413165}} {{free access}}

Books and encyclopedias

{{Cite book |editor-last=Gonzales Salas |editor-first=Inés |year=2013 |title=Biografías: Historias de vida en la Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional |url=https://archive.org/details/historias-de-vida-en-la-asamblea-legislativa-plurinacional/page/151 |language=es |publisher=Editorial Gente Común; ERBOL; Fundación Friedrich Ebert; IDEA Internacional |pages=151–153 |isbn=978-99954-93-05-9 |oclc=876429743 |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/120 |language=es |edition=2nd |location=La Paz |publisher=FUNDAPPAC; Fundación Konrad Adenauer |page=120 |isbn=978-99974-0-021-5 |oclc=1050945993 |via=the Internet Archive}}
{{Cite book |ref={{harvid|Vargas|Villavicencio|2014}} |editor-last1=Vargas Luna |editor-first1=María Elena |editor-last2=Villavicencio Arancibia |editor-first2=Jois Sarelly |year=2014 |title=Primera Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional de Bolivia, Cámara de Diputados: Diccionario biográfico, diputadas y diputados titulares y suplentes 2010–2015 |url=https://archive.org/details/primera-asamblea-legislativa-plurinacional-de-bolivia/page/46 |language=es |location=La Paz |publisher=Cámara de Diputados del Estado Plurinacional |page=46 |oclc=961105285 |via=the Internet Archive}}

External links

[https://www.vicepresidencia.gob.bo/spip.php?page=parlamentario&id_parlamentario=46 Parliamentary profile] Office of the Vice President {{inlang|es}}.
[https://erbol.com.bo/podcast/biografias_asamblea_plurinacional/rodolfo_calle Biographic profile] ERBOL {{inlang|es}}.

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