Fernando Untoja Choque

Fernando Untoja Choque (born March 30, 1950, in Oruro) is a Bolivian politician. An economist and political scientist, Untoja served as lecturer at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, the Universidad Técnica de Oruro, the Military Engineering School (EMI) and the Army Military College "Gualberto Villarroel". He was also a researcher at the Centro Andino de Desarollo Agropecuario.

On June 21, 1993, Untoja formed a political party, National Katarist Movement (MKN, a name borrowed from Tupac Katari).

He became a municipal councilor in Oruro in 1995. Later his party adopted a new name, Democratic National Katarism (KND). In 1997 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from Oruro through proportional representation from the list of the Nationalist Democratic Alliance (ADN), as part of the ADN-PDC-NFR alliance. He was the sole KND parliamentarian at the time. During the 1997-2002 parliamentary period, he was an ally of the right-wing government of former military dictator Hugo Banzer. His alternate in parliament was Mary Daza de Block.