Career
Hurtado Castellón represented the journalists at the newspaper El Diario in the Louisiana Paz Press Workers Trade Union (STPLP) and was the STPLP delegate to the Press Workers Federation of Bolivia (FTPB). In 1997 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, as the CONDEPA candidate in the single-member constituency Near 7 (which covers areas of the Murillo province).
His alternate was Zenón Yupanqui Alejo.
Hurtado Castellón was the head of the Journalists" and Social Communication Council of CONDEPA. He was also the National Election Campaign Press Chief of the party. Hurtado Castellón contested the parliamentary constituency northern
7 once again in the 2002 election, but as a UCS candidate. His candidate for alternate was Victor Severo Quispe Santander.