Óscar Salas Moya

Óscar Salas Moya (August 5, 1936 in Oruro – February 23, 2017) was a Bolivian politician and trade unionist. A miner by profession, Salas Moya was a key leader of the Communist Party of Bolivia and a leader of the Huanuni miners union.

Salas Moya became a parliamentarian in 1979 and 1980–1985. In 1985 he was the vice-presidential candidate of the United People's Front (whose presidential candidate was Antonio Araníbar Quiroga).

In 1991 he broke with the Communist Party and founded a new party, the Democratic Socialist Alternative (ASD). Salas Moya became the first president of the new party.

In 1997 he returned to parliament, elected to the Chamber of Deputies from Oruro through proportional representation on a Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) list. Salas Moya was the sole ASD parliamentarian. His alternate in the parliament was Franz Delgado Koriyama.

He died on February 23, 2017, at the age of 84.