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The United Socialist Party (
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: ''Partido Socialista Unificado'', PSU) was founded on 15 March 1936, as the result of a split in the Nationalist Party in 1936 and the adhesion of some prominent members of the Republican Socialist Party in 1937, and backed by Legion of Veterans and by the regional
socialist Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...
groups. The leaders of the party were Enrique Baldivieso, José Tamayo Solares, Fernando Campero Álvarez, Gabriel Gosálvez, Javier Paz Campero, Vicente Mendoza López, Hugo Ernst Rivera, Alberto Saracho, Carlos Salinas Aramayo, Francisco Lazcano Soruco, Armando Arce, and Augusto Céspedes. “''It espoused a somewhat confused corporativist philosophy, urging extensive government intervention in the economy, compulsory unionization of all workers, and the establishment of a legislature on the basis of functional, rather than geographical, representation''”. The United Socialist Party was associated with the revolutionary governments of Colonels José David Toro Ruilova and Germán Busch Becerra, between 1936 and 1939. For the 1938 elections, the United Socialist Party was the component of the pro-military Socialist Single Front. The United Socialist Party elected some deputies of National Congress in 1940, and during the first 2 years of Enrique Peñarand's administration they were among the government's opponents in parliament. However, in his third year in office,
Enrique Peñaranda Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo (15 November 1892 – 22 December 1969) was a Bolivian general who served as the 38th president of Bolivia from 1940 until his overthrow in 1943. He previously served as commander-in-chief of the country's Armed ...
formed a so-called cabinet of concentration which the United Socialist Party joined. It was in office when the Peñaranda government was overthrown on 20 December 1943. With the coup d'état of 1943 and the coming to power of Major
Gualberto Villarroel Gualberto Villarroel López (15 December 1908 – 21 July 1946) was a Bolivians, Bolivian military officer who served as the 39th president of Bolivia from 1943 to 1946. A reformist, sometimes compared with Argentina's Juan Perón, he is non ...
, the United Socialist Party split, with a dissident group forming the Independent Socialist Party, which for some time cooperated with the Villarroel regime. With the overthrow of Gualberto Villarroel on 10 November 1946, both of these groups joined with the
Genuine Republican Party The Genuine Republican Party (, PRG) was founded in Bolivia in 1921 by José María Escalier and Daniel Domingo Salamanca Urey following a split in the Republican Party. The Genuine Republican Party was formed by a conservative sector. The Rep ...
and the Republican Socialist Party to create the Republican Socialist Unity Party.Political handbook of the world 1950. New York, 1950. P. 16.


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{{reflist Defunct political parties in Bolivia Political parties established in 1936 Socialist parties in Bolivia