| Nila Heredia Miranda | |
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| Minister of Health and Sports | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 16 May 2010 |
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| Minister | Evo Morales |
| Preceded by | Sonia Polo |
| Vice Minister of Health and Health Promotion | |
| In office February 2010 – 16 May 2010 |
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| Minister of Health and Sports | |
| In office January 2006 – January 2008 |
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| Succeeded by | Wálter Selum |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 October 1959 Uyuni, Potosí, Bolivia |
| Nationality | Bolivian |
| Occupation | Medical school docent, Administrator |
Nila Heredia Miranda (born in Uyuni, Potosí) is a former medical school docent and administrator, former leftist militant, and Bolivia's Minister of Health and Sports, a position she has occupied twice.[1]
In the 1970s, Heredia was a member of the Revolutionary Workers' Party of Bolivia and the National Liberation Army during the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer.[2] She was seized by government forces on 2 April 1976, and according to a petition filed with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, tortured in the prefectural headquarters in Cochabamba and held in Viacha prison.[3]
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