Guillermo Capobianco Ribera (6 June 1945 – 12 May 2020) was a Bolivian lawyer, writer and politician.
He was Bolivia's Minister of the Interior from 6 August 1989 to 15 March 1991 during the government of President Jaime Paz Zamora and was also Bolivia's Minister of Housing and Urban Development from 13 April 1984 to 10 January 1985 during the second government of President Hernán Siles Suazo.
Biography
He was born on 6 June 1945 in the town of Concepción, which is located in the Ñuflo de Chávez Province in the Department of Santa Cruz. Ribera graduated in 1963 from Colegio Florida in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. He continued with his higher studies, entering to study law at the Gabriel René Moreno Autonomous University (UAGRM), graduating as a lawyer. During his university years he was the executive secretary of the Local University Federation (FUL).
He began his youth leadership in Christian democracy in the late 1960s, starting his militancy in the ranks of the party of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR). While the MIR was being founded, he was studying communication in Europe at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.
