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Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas (21 June 1925 – 19 October 2005) was a Bolivian jurist, lawyer, politician, and human rights activist who served as the 49th president of Bolivia from April to September 1969. He previously served as the 31st vice president of Bolivia under René Barrientos from 1966 to 1969. Background and early life Born in La Paz, Luis Adolfo Siles was the son of former president Hernando Siles Reyes (1926–1930) and half-brother of another Bolivian politician and two-time president, Hernán Siles Zuazo (1956–1960 and 1982–1985). Educated as a lawyer in his native country, he also obtained a doctorate in Spain. Siles eventually joined the small Partido Demócrata Cristiano (Christian-Democrat Party), which supported René Barrientos in the 1966 elections. Eisenhower Fellowships selected Luis Adolfo Siles in 1955 to represent Bolivia. Vice President of Bolivia In fact, Siles ran as General Barrientos' vice-presidential running mate, and was sworn in in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siles (other)
Siles may refer to: People *Jemma Siles (b. 1997), Australian singer/songwriter *Hernando Siles Reyes (b. 1882), 31st President of Bolivia, 27th Vice President of Bolivia *Hernán Siles Zuazo (b. 1914), 46th President of Bolivia, 31st Vice President of Bolivia *Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas (b. 1925), 49th President of Bolivia * Gome de Siles, Spanish noble and knight during the reign of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Places *Estadio Hernando Siles Estadio Hernando Siles (), also known as Estadio Olímpico La Paz, is a multi-purpose stadium in La Paz, Bolivia. It is the country's largest stadium, with a capacity of 41,143 seats. It is named after Hernando Siles Reyes, the 31st President o ..., a sports stadium in La Paz, Bolivia * Hernando Siles Province, in the Chuquisaca Department, Bolivia * Puerto Siles, a town and municipality in Yacuma Province in the Beni Department of northern Bolivia * Siles, Jaén, a town in Andalusia, Spain {{Disambig, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Bolivia
The president of Bolivia (), officially known as the president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (), is head of state and head of government of Bolivia and the captain general of the Armed Forces of Bolivia. According to the Bolivian Constitution, the president is elected by popular vote to a five-year term with no limit on the number of terms a president may serve. If no candidate wins a majority (defined as either more than 50%, or alternatively at least 40% and at least 10% more than the second-place candidate), the top two candidates advance to a runoff election. Luis Arce is the 67th and incumbent president of Bolivia. He assumed office on 8 November 2020. Constitutional history Establishment On 6 August 1825, the Republic of Bolivia declared its independence and proclaimed Simón Bolívar head of state. While it is certainly true that Bolívar was the official ruler of the country starting from his arrival on 12 August, there exists conflict amongst schol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamber Of Senators (Bolivia)
The Chamber of Senators () is the upper house of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in the Political Constitution of the State and others determined by Bolivian laws. The Senate is the legislative body of the country, where each Senator represents the interests of their Departments. The session room is located in the Legislative Palace building in Plaza Murillo. The Senate has 36 seats. Each of the country's nine departments returns four senators elected by proportional representation (using the D'Hondt method The D'Hondt method, also called the Jefferson method or the greatest divisors method, is an apportionment method for allocating seats in parliaments among federal states, or in proportional representation among political parties. It belongs to ...). (From 1985 to 2009, the Senate had 27 seats: three seats per department: two from the party or formula that receives the most votes, with the th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Bolivian General Election
General elections were held in Bolivia on 9 July 1978. The elections were the first held since 1966, with several military coups taking place during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although Juan Pereda of the Nationalist Union of the People won the presidential elections according to official statements, more votes were cast than there were registered voters. After examining a number of allegations of fraud and other irregularities, the National Electoral Court decided to annul the results on 19 July. The following day, Pereda was installed as President following a military coup. Pereda himself was overthrown by yet another military coup in November, which saw General David Padilla assume the presidency. Fresh elections were held the following year, with Padilla transferring power to his democratically elected successor, Wálter Guevara. Campaign Several alliances were formed for the elections: Juan Pereda was supported in his presidential bid by both the Nationalist Union o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Front Of The Bolivian Revolution
The Front of the Bolivian Revolution (Spanish: ''Frente de la Revolución Boliviana'', FRB) was an electoral political alliance built as an electoral vehicle for René Barrientos Ortuño, who seized power in a military coup on November 4, 1964. It was an alliance of: * The Popular Christian Movement, MPC; * The Social Democratic Party, PSD; * The Revolutionary Left Party, PIR; * The Authentic Revolutionary Party, PRA. * and a Peasant Bloc of rural leaders unaffiliated with any of these parties. James Malloy describes the parties involvement as self-interested: "its reason for being was the desire of these little bands of politicians to ride into office on Barrientos' coattails." The Front of the Bolivian Revolution was established in 1965, for the 1966 presidential and congressional elections. It presented as its presidential candidate René Barrientos Ortuño (independent) and Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas (21 June 1925 – 19 October 2005) was a Bol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice President Of Bolivia
The vice president of Bolivia (), officially known as the vice president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (), is the second highest political position in Bolivia. The vice president replaces the president in his definitive absence or others impediment and is the ''ex officio'' Plurinational Legislative Assembly, President of the Legislative Assembly. Thirty nine men have served as vice president of Bolivia since the office came into existence on 19 November 1826. José Ramón de Loayza was the first vice president of the Republic of Bolivia. The 38th vice president, Álvaro García Linera, was the last vice president of the Republic of Bolivia and the first vice president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. The second and current vice president of the Plurnational State is David Choquehuanca (2020 Bolivian general election, since 8 November 2020). There are currently five living former vice presidents. The most recent former vice president to die was Julio Garrett Ayllón ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Bolivian General Election
General elections were held in Bolivia on 3 July 1966.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p133 René Barrientos of the Front of the Bolivian Revolution (FRB) was elected president with 67% of the vote, whilst the FRB won a majority in both houses of Congress. James Dunkerley describes the election as not free and fair since a major segment of the opposition was excluded from participating. The Federal government of the United States, United States government provide covert financial support to back Barrientos and to dissuade opposition parties from boycotting the vote. Background Following the 1964 Bolivian general election, 1964 elections, Barrientos had led a military coup to remove Víctor Paz Estenssoro from power. In May 1965, Juan Lechín Oquendo, a labor leader who was the head of the left faction of the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, was arrested and expelled from the country. Foreign involvement The United States governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis García Meza
Luis García Meza Tejada (8 August 1929 – 29 April 2018) was a Bolivian general who served as the ''de facto'' 57th president of Bolivia from 1980 to 1981. He was a dictator convicted of human rights violations and leader of a violent coup. A native of La Paz, he was a career military officer who rose to the rank of general during the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer (1971–78). Prelude to dictatorship García Meza graduated from the military academy in 1952, and served as its commander from 1963 to 1964. He then rose to division commander in the late 1970s. He became the leader of the right-wing faction of the military of Bolivia most disenchanted with the return to civilian rule. Many of the officers involved had been part of the Hugo Banzer dictatorship and disliked the investigation of economic and human rights abuses by the new Bolivian congress. Moreover, they tended to regard the decline in popularity of the Carter administration in the United States as an indicator th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Banzer
Hugo Banzer Suárez (; 10 May 1926 – 5 May 2002) was a Bolivian politician and military officer who served as the 51st president of Bolivia. He held the Bolivian presidency twice: from 1971 to 1978 as a military dictator; and then again from 1997 to 2001, as a democratically elected president. Banzer rose to power via a coup d'état against socialist president Juan José Torres and repressed labor leaders, clergymen, indigenous people, and students during his 1971–1978 dictatorship. Several thousand Bolivians were either forced to seek asylum in foreign countries, arrested, tortured, or killed during this period, known as the ''Banzerato''. After Banzer's removal via a coup led by Juan Pereda, he remained an influential figure in Bolivian politics and would run for election to the presidency via the ballot box on several occasions, eventually succeeding in 1997 via a narrow plurality of 22.26% of the popular vote. During Banzer's constitutional term, he extended pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Bolivian Coup D'état
1969 Bolivian coup d'état (also known as the 26 September Revolution by supporters) was a military coup carried out by the Bolivian commander Alfredo Ovando Candía that deposed President Luís Adolfo Siles Salinas, former vice-president of René Barrientos who had taken office after his death. Ovando seized power in the name of a "nationalist and revolutionary" program formulated in the ''Revolutionary Mandate of the Armed Forces''. Ovando's coup belonged to a trend of military regimes of nationalist and progressive orientation in Latin America, represented by Juan Velasco Alvarado and Omar Torrijos Herrera. Context 1964 coup and military polarization On November 4, 1964, generals René Barrientos Ortuño and Alfredo Ovando Candía overthrew Víctor Paz Estenssoro and formed a military junta. Ovando was the key actor of the coup and aspired to become president, but Barrientos emerged as the new ruler due to his popularity. In May 1965, the Barrientos-Ovando co-presidency was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armando Escobar Uría
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Cochabamba
Cochabamba (; ) is a city and municipality in central Bolivia in a valley in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital (political), capital of the Cochabamba Department and the list of cities in Bolivia, fourth largest city in Bolivia, with a population of 630,587 according to the 2012 Bolivian census. Its name is from a compound of the Quechua languages, Quechua words ''qucha'' "lake" and ''pampa'', "open plain." Residents of the city and the surrounding areas are commonly referred to as ''cochalas'' or, more formally, ''cochabambinos''. It is known as the "City of Eternal Spring" or "The Garden City" because of its spring-like temperatures all year round. It is also known as "La Llajta," which means "town" in Quechua. It is the largest urban center between the higher capital of La Paz and Santa Cruz de la Sierra in the tropical plains of the east. It sits south-west of the Tunari mountains, and north of the foothills of the Valle Alto. In antiquity, the area featured numero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
