Background and Early Life
Quiroga was born in Cochabamba. Quiroga is a 1981 graduate of Texas A&M University, with a degree in industrial engineering, becoming the first head of state from that university. He went on to be a self-declared "corporate yuppie" working for I.B.M. in Austin, Texas while earning a master's degree in business administration from St. Edward's University. He and his American wife Virginia then moved back to Bolivia., like many other Bolivian Presidents Quiroga is of European descent of Spanish blood.
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