Arturo Carlos Murillo Prijic is a Bolivian businessman, hotelier, and politician who served as the minister of government from 2019 to 2020. As a member of the National Unity Front, he previously served as a senator for Cochabamba from 2015 to 2019 and as a plurinominal member of the Chamber of Deputies from Cochabamba from 2006 to 2010.
Arturo Murillo
Senator Murillo delivers a press conference in the Legislative Assembly.
Murillo and other ministers are sworn in to the Áñez Cabinet, 13 November 2019.
Murillo and Cárdenas are sworn in to their posts, 20 October 2020.
2019 Bolivian political crisis
A political crisis occurred in Bolivia on 10 November 2019, after 21 days of civil protests following the disputed 2019 Bolivian general election in which incumbent President Evo Morales was initially declared the winner. The elections took place after a referendum to amend the Bolivian constitution, which limits the number of terms to two, was rejected in 2016. In 2017 under political pressure and a legal demand from the Morales government, the Constitutional Tribunal (TCP) ruled that all public offices would have no term limits despite what was established in the constitution and allowing Evo Morales to run for a fourth term.
Image: Jeanine Áñez. 12 November 2019, Ministry of Communication, Palacio Quemado, La Paz
Image: Conferencia de Prensa de Evo Morales en el Museo de la Ciudad de México 3
Jeanine Áñez in 2016