Segundina Flores
{{Short description|Bolivian ambassador and activist}}
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| name = Segundina Flores
| image = Segundina Flores, 13 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2024 (597).jpg
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| caption = in December 2024
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| birth_date = 30 March 1968
| birth_place = Oropeza Province
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| known_for = leader of women's movement and Minister of Culture
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| occupation = politician
| party = Movement for Socialism (MAS)
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| nationality = Bolivian
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Segundina Flores Solamayo (born 30 March 1968) is a politician, Bolivian ambassador and activist. She was a Movement for Socialism (MAS) Deputy in to the 1st Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia in 2010.
Life
Flores was born in 1968{{Cite web |title=Vicepresidencia del Estado |url=https://www.vicepresidencia.gob.bo/spip.php?page=parlamentario&id_parlamentario=135 |access-date=17 December 2024 |website=www.vicepresidencia.gob.bo}} in Oropeza Province.
Flores was elected as a Movement for Socialism (MAS) Deputy in 2010 to the 1st Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia. She was one of 33 women elected to the 130 strong assembly.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}
In 1994 she was the women's leader in Santa Cruz of the Bartolina Sisa Confederation and she became the conferation's executive. In 2019 she was invited to the United Nations to celebrate International Mother Earth Day as a representative of the Bartolina Sisa confederation.{{Cite web |date=23 April 2019 |title=Confederación "Bartolina Sisa" y las organizaciones del Pacto de Unidad participan del XVIII Periodo de Sesiones del Foro Permanente de la ONU para las Cuestiones Indígenas |url=https://www.bartolinasisa.org/2019/04/23/confederacion-bartolina-sisa-y-las-organizaciones-del-pacto-de-unidad-participan-del-xviii-periodo-de-sesiones-del-foro-permanente-de-la-onu-para-las-cuestiones-indigenas/ |access-date=17 December 2024 |website=Confederación Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas Indígenas Originarias de Bolivia ``Bartolina Sisa`` |language=es}}
In 2020 "her" President Evo Morales was involved in choosing a new Governor of Santa Cruz. He endorsed the former Mayor of Warnes, Mario Cronenbold, but he withdrew his support when Cronenbold made statements in favor of not prosecuting an anti-Morales activist.{{Cite web |date=15 December 2020 |title=Bases del MAS desconocen a García y ratifican a Conenbold |url=https://www.paginasiete.bo/nacional/2020/12/15/bases-del-mas-desconocen-garcia-ratifican-conenbold-278112.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215165836/https://www.paginasiete.bo/nacional/2020/12/15/bases-del-mas-desconocen-garcia-ratifican-conenbold-278112.html |archive-date=15 December 2020 |access-date=16 December 2020 |website=Página Siete |language=es}} Someone threw a plastic chair at Morales in what became known as the "silletazo."{{Cite web|date=15 December 2020|title=Captan en video sillazo a Evo Morales en asamblea de su partido MAS|url=https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/mundo/captan-en-video-sillazo-evo-morales-en-asamblea-de-su-partido-mas|access-date=16 December 2020|website=El Universal|language=es}}
The "silletazo" was met by various reactions. Flores supported Morales noting that he "deserves respect" and people "cannot be bouncing around with chairs." However, she also pointed out candidates should not be chosen by the pointing of a finger.{{Cite web |title=Ejecutiva de Bartolinas: "Evo merece respeto y no pueden estar botando con sillas" |url=https://correodelsur.com/politica/20201215_ejecutiva-de-bartolinas-evo-merece-respeto-y-no-pueden-estar-botando-con-sillas.html |access-date=16 December 2020 |website=Correo del Sur |language=es}}
In 2024 she was Bolivia's ambassador to Ecuador when the Ecuadorian government raided the Mexican embassy to retrieve an ex-vice president, Jorge Glas, who was avoiding justice. Flores was summoned by Bolivia in response to the invasion of an embassy.{{Cite news |last= |date=7 April 2024 |title=Bolivia convoca a su embajadora en Ecuador tras asalto de embajada de México en Quito |url=https://elcomercio.pe/mundo/latinoamerica/ecuador-vs-mexico-bolivia-convoca-a-su-embajadora-en-ecuador-tras-asalto-de-embajada-de-mexico-en-quito-jorge-glas-amlo-daniel-noboa-luis-arce-noticia/ |access-date=21 February 2025 |work=El Comercio |language=es-PE |issn=1605-3052 |agency=Agence France-Presse}}
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Category:People from Oropeza Province
Category:Ambassadors of Bolivia to Ecuador
Category:Government ministers of Bolivia
Category:Members of the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies from Santa Cruz