Career
Flores Calpiñeiro served as a professor at the Universidade Federal do Acre (Brazil) 1982-1988. In the same years he was a technical manager for the Acre State Planning Commission. Between 1984 and 1986 he coordinated the Integral Rural Development Programme of Acre.
He directed the Working Group of the PLANACRE, the Acre State Development Plan, 1986-1987.
Flores Calpiñeiro was elected to the Bolivian parliament in 1989, 1993 and 1997. 1989-1990 he was the president of the Commission on Environment and Natural Resources.
1993-1994 he was the president of the Science and Technology Commission. In 1997 he was elected from Pando, through the proportional representation vote as a Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) candidate.
During this tenure, he was also the president of the Amazonic Parliament.
