Rodolfo Illanes

Rodolfo Illanes (19 August 1958 - 25 August 2016) was a Bolivian politician. In 2016 he was the deputy Interior Minister when he was kidnapped by striking miners.^[1] He had gone to meet with the miners at Pandura.^[2] The miners were demanding more mining, the right to work for private companies, and greater union representation.^[1] When talks between the government and the miners failed, Illanes was beaten to death by his kidnappers.^[1]