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Rodolfo Plaza Montero
Rodolfo Plaza Montero (nicknamed El Cabro because of his speed) was born July 27, 1909, and was a Bolivian football player, businessman and revolutionary. He played in the amateur Federación Boliviana de Fútbol Club Bolivar and was the only player to become its coach and President from 1956 to 1963. He was a member of the national team and participated in the 1938 Juegos Bolivarianos. He also took up arms and was part of the planning members of the Revolution of 1952 that allowed Victor Paz Estensoro to assume the presidency. Paz was the duly elected president in the 1951 elections. Unlike Walter Guevara Arze, Carlos Montenegro, Augusto Céspedes, Fernando Iturralde Chinel, Armando Arce, Javier del Granado, Rafael Otazo Vargas-Bozo, Jorge T. Lavadenz, Alfonso Montaño Lino, Jose Camaho Arancivia, José Cuadros Quiroga, Germán Monroy Block, Rodolfo Costas, Raúl Molina Gutiérrez, Rigoberto Armaza Lopera and others, Rodolfo Plaza Montero refused to accept any official positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, warm valleys, high-altitude Andean plateaus, and snow-capped peaks, encompassing a wide range of climates and biomes across its regions and cities. It includes part of the Pantanal, the largest tropical wetland in the world, along its eastern border. It is bordered by Brazil to the Bolivia-Brazil border, north and east, Paraguay to the southeast, Argentina to the Argentina-Bolivia border, south, Chile to the Bolivia–Chile border, southwest, and Peru to the west. The seat of government is La Paz, which contains the executive, legislative, and electoral branches of government, while the constitutional capital is Sucre, the seat of the judiciary. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Geog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
