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Manfred Armando Antonio Reyes Villa Bacigalupi (born 19 April 1955) is a Bolivian politician, businessman, and former military officer. He was the mayor of the city of Cochabamba[1] from 1994 to 2000, and became the elected Prefect of the Department of Cochabamba from 2006 until 2008 when he was recalled in that year's no confidence referendum.[2][3]
Villa was born on 19 April 1955 in La Paz, Bolivia.[4] Villa is the son of Armando Reyes Villa, who was the Minister of Defense during Luis García Meza's dictatorship.[5] From February to April 1976, he attended courses at the School of the Americas as a cadet in Combat Arms Basic C-2.[5]
Afterwards, he became a military attaché at the Bolivian embassies in Brazil and the United States, and was an aide to Luis García Meza.[6] According to the newspaper Hoy, Villa was involved in the Harrington Street Massacre of 1981, where eight members of the MIR-NM were killed.[6] He retired from the military in 1986 and settled in the United States, where he pursued a career in business administration and became Vice President of the Crawford International Silver Spring in Maryland.[7]
Political career
Villa returned soon after to Bolivia in the early 1990s to join the Nationalist Democratic Action.[7] Eventually, he convinced the party to establish an alliance with the center-left Free Bolivia Movement.[7] In 1992, he assumed the vice-presidency of the Municipal Council of Cochabamba, before being elected mayor of the city the following year.[8]
He was an unsuccessful candidate for president in both 2002 and 2009, being the runner-up in the latter. In 2009, he relocated to the United States, living in Miami for nearly 10 years.[9]
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