María Cecilia Chacón Rendón is a Bolivian lawyer, political scientist who served as the minister of defense in 2011.[1] She became the first woman to occupy that office. She served as General Director of Multilateral Relations (Spanish: Directora General de Relaciones Multilaterales) and Chief of Cabinet for the Vice Ministry of Foreign Economic and Commercial Relations (Spanish: Jefa de Gabinete del Viceministerio Relaciones Económicas y Comercio Exterior) in the foreign ministry under President Evo Morales.[1] She also worked in the Water Ministry.[2]
She resigned from the post of minister of defense during the 2011 Bolivian protests in reaction to the governments violent crackdown on demonstrators opposed to a highway project in a national park.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ a b "María Chacón, primera ministra de Defensa". Los Tiempos. 2011-04-07. Archived from the original on 2011-04-10. Retrieved 2011-04-07.
- ^ "Marcha indígena se encuentra en territorio cochabambino". El Diario. 2006-11-14. Retrieved 2011-04-06.
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