romn loayza caero born february 29 1948 independencia is a bolivian politician and farmer he was a prominent leader in the farmers trade union movement and one of the founders of the movement for socialism masloyaza caero grew up in independencia and went to school for a few years there he began working at an early age he did his military service at the 8th cavallery regiment mariscal braun in santa cruzin 1978 he became the treasurer of a consumers cooperative in independencia between 1983 and 1985 he was the general secretary of the independencia provincial trade union centre he then moved on to serve as secretario de vialidad of the sindicato unico de trabajadores campesinos de cochabamba sutccba between 1985 and 1987 then becoming the organizing secretary of sutccba between 1987 and 1989 and international secretary between 1989 and 1991 in 1993 he was elected executive secretary of the federacin unica de trabajadores campesinos de cochabamba futccba and reelected in 1995 in 1995 he also took part in founding the assembly for the sovereignty of the peoples in 1996 he became the executive secretary of confederacin sindical nica de trabajadores campesinos de bolivia csutcbin 1997 he was elected to the chamber of deputies as the united left iu candidate in the singlemember constituency no 31 which covers areas of the ayopaya arque quillacollo tapacari and bolivar provinces in 1999 loyaza caero took the side of evo morales in the factional conflict within the asp and joined morales mas in 2002 he was elected alternate senator as a mas candidate and in 2006 he was elected to the constituent assembly again as a mas candidate loyaza caero led the mas faction in the constituent assemblyhe would lead csutcb until 2005loayza caero was a candidate in the 2009 presidential election on behalf of the grouping gente however shortly before the election he withdrew from the race and broke with gente after having received low percentages in prepoll opinion surveys loayza caero attributed the difficulties of his campaign to lack of financial resources later he withdrew his withdrawal and returned to gente csutcb publicly denounced his candidature in january 2010 he announced an alliance with ppbcn ahead of the 2010 local and regional elections