{{Short description|Uruguayan professor and politician}} {{family name hatnote|Olivera|Pessano|lang=Spanish}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Diputada Ana Olivera 2020 Cropped.jpg | caption = Olivera in 2020 | name = Ana Olivera | order = | office = National Representative<br />for Montevideo | term_start = 15 February 2020 | deputy = | lieutenant = | president = | predecessor = | successor = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|12|17|df=y}} | birth_place = Montevideo, Uruguay | death_date = | death_place = | party = Communist Party of Uruguay<br>Broad Front | alma_mater = | occupation = Politician, professor | signature = | website = | minister4 = Marina Arismendi | minister2 = Marina Arismendi | succeeded4 = Lauro Melendez | term_end4 = 1 March 2010 | order2 = Deputy Minister of Social Development of Uruguay | order3 = | term_start4 = 1 March 2005 | successor2 = Armando Castaingdebat | preceding3 = | predecessor2 = Lauro Melendez | term_end2 = 14 February 2020 | term_start2 = 9 July 2015 | term_start1 = 8 July 2010 | term_end1 = 9 July 2015 | predecessor1 = Hyara Rodríguez | succeeded1 = Daniel Martínez | office1 = Intendant of Montevideo | office2 = | predecessor4 = ''Creation of the position'' | term_end = 1 March 2026 }}
'''Ana María Olivera Pessano''' (born 17 December 1953) is a Uruguayan politician of the Communist Party – Broad Front. She served as Intendant of Montevideo from 2010 to 2015, becoming the first woman to hold the position, and later as a National Representative in the 49th Legislature.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 January 2010 |title=Ana Olivera candidate of Frente Amplio - El País |url=http://www.elpais.com.uy/100130/pnacio-468472/nacional/olivera-candidata-del-frente-los-socialistas-critican-las-reglas}}</ref> She also served as Deputy Minister of Social Development in both administrations of President Tabaré Vázquez.
== Biography ==
=== Early life === She was born in Montevideo on 17 December 1953.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae: Ana Olivera |url=http://www.mides.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/6253/1/CV_Ana_Olivera.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929003448/http://www.mides.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/6253/1/CV_Ana_Olivera.pdf |archive-date=29 September 2011 |url-status=dead |date=29 September 2011 |website=Ministry of Social Development (Uruguay) |access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref> At a very young age she joined the MLN-Tupamaros, so she had to go into exile in Cuba and later in France during the civic-military dictatorship. In France, he joined the Communist Party of Uruguay. Once the dictatorship ended, she returned to her native country and graduated as a secondary school French teacher.
=== Political career === left|thumb|230x230px|Ana Olivera in 2015. In 1995 she was appointed Director of the Division of Local Administrations of the Municipality of Montevideo, by the then Intendant, Mariano Arana. In a new term of office of Arana, Olivera assumes the position of Director of the Western Region Division, until 2003. Again, in 2003 and until 2005 she assumes as General Director of the Decentralization Department, being in charge of the sectoral commissions of Youth, Children, Women, the Elderly and Social Management for the Disabled. In March 2005, after President Tabaré Vázquez took office, she was appointed Deputy Minister of Social Development. Back then, the officerholder was Marina Arismendi.
After José Mujica took office, he appointed her as Minister of Social Development. However, Olivera rejected the position when she was proclaimed as candidate by the Broad Front in Montevideo for the 2015 municipal election.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.elpais.com.uy/100130/pnacio-468472/nacional/olivera-candidata-del-frente-los-socialistas-critican-las-reglas|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100303012455/http://www.elpais.com.uy/100130/pnacio-468472/nacional/olivera-candidata-del-frente-los-socialistas-critican-las-reglas|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 March 2010|title=Olivera candidata del Frente; los socialistas critican las reglas - Diario EL PAIS - Montevideo - Uruguay|date=3 March 2010|access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.frenteamplio.org.uy/node/4384|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210230447/http://www.frenteamplio.org.uy/node/4384|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 February 2012|title=Ana Olivera es nuestra candidata para Montevideo {{!}} Frente Amplio|date=10 February 2012|access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref>
== See also ==
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==External links== * [http://www.mides.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/6253/1/CV_Ana_Olivera.pdf Ana Olivera - Currículum - MIDES] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929003448/http://www.mides.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/6253/1/CV_Ana_Olivera.pdf |date=29 September 2011 }}
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