Óscar Salas Moya, Bolivian politician and trade unionist, Died at 80

  Politician

Óscar Salas Moya was born on August 5, 1936, in Oruro and died on February 23, 2017.
He was a Bolivian politician and trade unionist.
Professionally he was trained as a miner, he was a key leader of the Communist Party of Bolivia and a leader of the Huanuni miners union.
In politics, he had reached out to a younger generation in the party leadership, was strengthened in 1964, after the party had been deserted by Pimentel and Escóbar.
He became a parliamentarian in 1979 and 1980-1985.
During 1985, he was the vice-presidential candidate of the United People’s Front (whose presidential candidate was Antonio Araníbar Quiroga), nonetheless, the Araníbar-Salas candidature obtained 38,124 votes (2.84% of the national vote).
Óscar Salas Moya passed away at 80 years old.