Bolivia
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25 Jul 1826 - 5 Nov 1851
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1836 - 1839
Bolivia State in Peru-Bolivia
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1 May 1837 - 20 Jan 1839
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Peru-Bolivia Confederation
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Adopted 5 Nov 1851 Civil Flag
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Adopted 5 Nov
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National Symbol from 7 Feb 2009
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Map
of Bolivia
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Hear
National Anthem
""Canción Patriótica"
(Patriotic Song)
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Text
of National Anthem
Adopted 1852
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Constitution
(7 Feb 2009)
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1967 Constitution
(2 Feb 1967 - 7 Feb 2009)
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Capital: Sucre
(Chuquisaca 1538 - 1839;
Peru-Bolivia: Tacna
1836-1839)
Administrative Seat: La Paz
(de facto since 1898)
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Currency: Boliviano (BOB)
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National Holiday: 6 Aug (1825) Independence Day
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Population: 9,247,816 (2008)
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GDP: $43.08 billion (2008)
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Exports: $6.38 billion (2008) Imports: $4.78 billion (2008)
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Ethnic groups: Amerindian 62% (of which Quechua 31%,
Aymara 25%), mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian) 28%,
white 10% (of which German 3%) (2001)
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Total Armed Forces: 33,000 (2006) Merchant marine: 23 ships (2008)
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Religions: Roman Catholic 78%, Protestant 16%, other Christian 3% (of which Mormon 1.8%),
other 0.5%, nonreligious 2.5% (2001)
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International
Organizations/Treaties: ACTO, APM, BTWC, CAN, CTBT, ENMOD (signatory),
FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO,
IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISA, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, KP,
LAES, LAIA, LAP, LU, Mercosur (associate), MIGA, NAM, NPT, NTBT, OAS, OPANAL,
OPCW, PCA, RG, SEGIB, UN, UNASUR, UNCLOS, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFCC, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU,
WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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Bolivia Index
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Chronology
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1538 - 1545
Spanish colonize area called Charcas, Upper Peru,
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or Chuquisaca.
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3 Jan 1548
Part of Viceroyalty of Peru.
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18 Sep 1559 Audiencia y Cancillería Real de La Plata de
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los Charcas created to administer Upper Peru.
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8 Aug 1776
Part of Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata
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(see Argentina).
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16 Jul 1809 - Nov 1809 Independent state
proclaimed in Upper Peru
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nominally in the name of Ferdinand VII the
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Bourbon king of Spain deposed by Napoleon.
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1811 - 1816
Proclaimed a province of Río de la Plata
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(see Argentina).
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1816
Re-incorporated into Peru.
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16 May 1825 Departments of Upper Peru (Alto Perú) are
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organized as a territory occupied by the army
- of Peru (Provincias del Alto Perú).
- 6 Aug 1825 Independence declared (Upper Peru); not
- recognized by Peru.
- 11 Aug 1825 República Bolívar (Alto Perú and Estado del Alto
- Perú were also used).
- 18 May 1826 Peru recognizes Bolivian independence.
- 25 May 1826 Executive functions transferred from military
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governor to Constituent Congress
- (República Bolivia; also Bolivia).
- 28 Oct 1836 - 20 Feb 1839 Component of Peru-Bolivian Confederation
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(for North and South Peru components see
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under Peru).
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27 Mar 1867
Acre granted to Bolivia in the Treaty of
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Ayacucho.
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1 Oct 1868
Republic of Bolivia (the old style lingers
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until 1908).
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20 Oct 1883
Pacific coastline including Antofagasta
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annexed by Chile.
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4 Jul 1899 - 25 Apr 1900 Acre independent of Bolivia
(see under Brazil).
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17 Nov 1903
Acre purchased by Brazil in the Treaty of
- Petrópolis.
- 18 Mar 2009
Plurinational State of Bolivia
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Departments
(from 2006)
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Provinces of
Upper Peru
(1783-1825)
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Cochabamba
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Córdoba
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La Paz
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Potosí
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Presidents of the Audiencia
1559 - 1572
Pedro Ramírez de Quiñones
1573 - 1577
Lope Díez Aux de Armendáriz (d. 1584)
1578 - 1579
Juan de Matienzo (acting) (b. 1520 - d.
1579) 1579 - 1582 Manuel
Barros de San Millán (b. 1523 - d. 1599)
(acting)
1582 - 1600
Juan López de Cepeda
1600 - 1609 Alonso Maldonado de Torres (b. c.1520 - d. 16..)
1609 - 1610 Ruiz Bejarano
1610 - 1626
Diego de Portugal
1626
- 1627 Alonso Pérez
de Salazar y Rosales (b. 1561 - d. 1646)
(acting)
1627 - 1629 Diego Muñoz de Cuéllar (1st time)
(acting)
1629 - 1630
Martín de Egües Beaumont
1630 - 1632 Diego Muñoz de Cuéllar (2nd time)
1632 Francisco de Alfaro
(disputed in some sources)
May 1632 - 1635 Juan de Carvajal y Sande
Mar 1635 - 1642
Juan de Lizárazu y Recain
1642 - 1644
Dionisio Pérez Manrique de Lara, (b. 1598? - d. 1678)
marqués de Santiago
1644 - 1647 Francisco de Sossa
1647 - 1660
Francisco de Nestares Marín
1660 Andrés Garavito de Léon (acting)
1660 - 1663
Bartolomé de Salazar
1663 - 1670 Pedro Vázquez de Velasco
1670 - 1671 Luis
José Merlo de la Fuente (d. 1671)
1671 - 1674 José del Corral Calvo de la Banda (d. 1686)
(acting)
1674 - 1687
Bartolomé González de Póveda
1687 - 1694
Diego de Mesia (or Mexia)
1694 - 1699 Antonio Martínez Luján de Vargas
1699 - 1700
Francisco Domínguez
1700 - 1708 Miguel Antonio de Ormaza y Ponce (d. 1723)
de Léon (acting)
1708 - 1717 Francisco Pimentel y Sotomayor
1717 - 1725
Gabriel Antonio de Matienzo
1725 - 1733
Francisco de Herboso y Luza
1733 - 1735 José Cipriano de Herrera
1736 - 1737 Ignacio del Castillo (acting)
1737 - 1746 Antonio
Hermenegildo de Querejazu (b. 1711 - d. 1792)
y Mollinedo
1746 - 1754 Domingo de Jáuregui
1754 - 1757
Nicolás Jiménez de Lobatón
y Azaña,(b. 1693 - d. 1757)
marqués de Rochafuerte
1757 - 1766
Juan Francisco Pestaña y Chumacero (d. 1766)
1766 - 1769
Juan Martínez de Tineo
(interim to 1767)
1769 - 1777
Ambrosio de Benavides Medina Liñán (b. 1718 - d. 1787)
y Torres
1778
Gerónimo Manuel de Ruedas (1st time)
1778 - 1780
Augustín Fernando de Pinedo Fernández
de Valdivieso (1st time)
1780 - 1781 Gerónimo Manuel de Ruedas (2nd time)
1781 - 1782 Augustín Fernando de Pinedo Fernández
de Valdivieso (2nd time)
1782 - 1785
Ignacio Flores
1785 - 1790
Vicente de Gálvez y Valenzuela
1790 - 1797
Joaquín del Pino Sánchez de Rosas (b. 1729 - d. 1804)
Romero y Negrete
1797 - 1805
Ramón García de León y Pizarro
(b. 1770 - d. 1835)
1805 - 12 Jul 1809 José Ramírez de Laredo y Encalada
(acting)
President of Junta of Defense of the Rights of the King and the Town
12 Jul 1809 - 30 Sep 1809 Pedro Domingo Murillo
(b. 1756 - d. 1809)
Presidents of the Audiencia
30 Sep 1809 - 13 Nov 1810
Vicente Nieto de las Viñas y (b. 1769 - d. 1810)
García Sánchez de Valencia y
González
13 Nov 1810 - 1811 Juan José Castelli (b. 1764 - d. 1812)
(revolutionary government)
1811 - 1813
Domingo Tristán y Moscoso
1813
Francisco Antonio Ortiz de Ocampo (b. 1771 - d.
1840)
(revolutionary government)
1813 - 1814 Gregorio de Hoyos de Miranda García
de Llano, marqués de Valde
Hoyos
1815
Martín Rodríguez
(b. 1771 - d. 1845)
1815 Juan Antonio Fernández
(revolutionary government)
1816 - 1818
José Pascual de Vivero y Salaverria
22 Feb 1818 - 1824
Rafael Maroto Yserns
(b. 1783 - d. 1853)-
1824 - 1825
Pedro Antonio de Olañete
(b. 1770 - d. 1825)
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1825 Antonio Vigil
- Military governor
- 16 May 1825 - 18 Aug 1825 Antonio José Francisco de Sucre (b. 1795 - d. 1830) Mil
- y Alcalá
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(Commander-in-chief of the Army of Liberation)
- Liberator, invested with the Supreme Executive Power
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18 Aug 1825 - 29 Dec 1825 Simón José de la Santísima
(b. 1783 - d. 1830) Mil
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Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios
- Military governor
- 29 Dec 1825 - 25 May 1826 Antonio José Francisco de Sucre
(s.a.) Mil
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y Alcalá
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(commander-in-chief of Army of Liberation,
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in charge of the departments)
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President of the General Constituent Congress
- 25 May 1826 - 28 May 1826 José Joaquín Casimiro Olañeta y (b. 1796 - d. 1860)
- Güemes
- Presidents
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28 May 1826 - 12 Aug 1828 Antonio José Francisco de Sucre
(s.a.)
Mil
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y Alcalá
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(Commander-in-chief of the Liberation
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Army, in charge of the Supreme Command
- of Bolivia to 19 Jun 1826)
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18 Apr 1828 - 12 Aug 1828 José María Pérez
de Urdininea y (b. 1784 - d. 1865) Mil
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Gurruchaga (acting for Sucre)
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12 Aug 1828 - 18 Dec 1828 José Miguel de Velasco y Franco (b. 1795 - d. 1859) Mil
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(1st time)(acting for José Andrés
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Cruz who did not take office)
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18 Dec 1828 - 31 Dec 1828 Pedro Blanco Soto (provisional)
(b. 1795 - d. 1829) Mil
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18 Dec 1828 - 26 Dec 1828 José Ramón de Loayza Pacheco (b. 1751 - d. 1839)
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Salgado (acting for Blanco)
- 31 Dec 1828 - 24 May 1829 José Miguel
de Velasco y Franco (s.a.)
Mil
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(2nd time)(acting, from 31 Jan
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1829 for José Andrés de Santa Cruz)
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31 Jan 1829 - 20 Feb 1839 José Andrés de Santa
Cruz (b. 1792 - d.
1865) Mil
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y Villavicencio y Calumana
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(provisional to 15 Aug 1831; also Supreme
Protector of the
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Peru-Bolivian Confederation 28 Oct 1836 -
20 Feb 1839)
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18 Jul 1838 - 22 Feb 1839 Mariano Enrique Calvo Cuéllar (b. 1782 - d. 1842)
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(1st time)(acting [for absent Santa Cruz to 20 Feb 1839])
- 22 Feb 1839 - 10 Jun 1841 José Miguel de Velasco y Franco
(s.a.)
Mil
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(3rd time)
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(Provisional Supreme Chief to 16 Jun 1839,
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provisional to 15 Aug 1840)
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10 Jun 1841 - 9 Jul 1841 Sebastián de Ágreda
(b. 1795 - d. 1875) Mil
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(Provisional Chief)
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9 Jul 1841 - 22 Sep 1841 Manuel Enrique Calvo Cuéllar
(s.a.)
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(2nd time)(acting)
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22 Sep 1841 - 27 Sep 1841 Vacant
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1841 - 23 Dec 1847 José Ballivián Segurola
(b. 1805 - d. 1852) Mil
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(provisional to 15 Aug 1844)
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23 Dec 1847 - 2 Jan 1848 Eusebio Guilarte Mole (interim)
(b. 1799 - d. 1849) Mil
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2 Jan 1848 - 6 Jan 1848 Vacant
- 6 Jan 1848 - 18 Jan 1848 Manuel Isidoro Belzu Humérez
(b. 1808 - d. 1865) PP
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(1st time)(interim)
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18 Jan 1848 - 6 Dec 1848 José Miguel de Velasco y
Franco (s.a.)
Mil
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(4th time)(provisional)
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6 Dec 1848 - 15 Aug 1855 Manuel Isidoro Belzu Humérez
(s.a.)
PP
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(2nd time)(provisional [in
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rebellion from 13 Oct 1848] to 15 Aug 1850)
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15 Aug 1855 - 21 Oct 1857 Jorge Córdova
(b. 1822 - d. 1861) PP
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21 Oct 1857 - 14 Jan 1861 José María Linares y
de Lizarazu (b. 1810 - d. 1861) Rojo
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Beaumont y Navarra
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(provisional [in rebellion from 9 Sep 1857])
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14 Jan 1861 - 4 May 1861 Governing Junta
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- Ruperto Fernández
(d. 1877)
Mil
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- José María de Achá
Valiente (b.
1810 - d. 1868) Mil
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- Manuel Antonio Sánchez
(b. 1810 - d. 1861) Mil
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(to 9 Apr 1861)
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4 May 1861 - 28 Dec 1864 José María de Achá
Valiente
(s.a.)
Mil
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(provisional to 15 Aug 1862)
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28 Dec 1864 - 15 Jan 1871 Manuel Mariano Melgarejo
(b. 1818 - d. 1871) Mil
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(provisional to 15 Aug 1870)
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15 Jan 1871 - 27 Nov 1873 Pedro Agustín Morales Hernández
(b. 1808 - d. 1872) PL
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(Supreme Chief of the Revolution [in rebellion
from
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26 Nov 1870] to 21 Jan 1871; provisional to
25 Aug 1872)
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27 Nov 1873 - 28 Nov 1873 Juan de Dios Bosque (acting)
(b. 1829 - d. 1890) Non-party
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28 Nov 1873 - 9 May 1873 Tomás Francisco Frías
Ametller (b. 1804 - d. 1884) PL
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(1st time)
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May 1873 - 14 Feb 1874 Adolfo Ballivián Coll
(b. 1831 - d. 1873) Mil
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14 Feb 1874 - 4 May 1876 Tomás Francisco Frías
Ametller (s.a.)
PL
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(2nd time)
- 4 May 1876 - 28 Dec 1879 Hilarión Daza Grosellé
(b. 1840 - d. 1893) Mil
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(provisional)
- 28
Dec 1879 - 17 Jan 1880 Uladislao Silva
Mil
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(President of Junta)
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19 Jan 1880 - 31 May 1880 José Narciso Campero Leyes
(b. 1813 - d. 1896) PC
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(1st time) (provisional)
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1 Jun 1880 - 19 Jun 1880 Aniceto Arce y Ruiz de Mendoza
(b. 1824 - d. 1906) PC
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(1st time) (acting)
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19 Jun 1880 - 4 Sep 1884 José Narciso Campero Leyes
(s.a.)
PC
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(2nd time)
- 4 Sep 1884 - 15 Aug 1888 José Gregorio Pacheco Leyes
(b. 1823 - d. 1899) PC
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15 Aug 1888 - 11 Aug 1892 Aniceto Arce y Ruiz de Mendoza
(s.a.)
PC
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(2nd time)
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11 Aug 1892 - 19 Aug 1896 José Mariano Baptista Caserta
(b. 1832 - d. 1907) PC
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19 Aug 1896 - 12 Apr 1899 Severo Fernández Alonso Caballero
(b. 1848 - d. 1925) PC
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12 Dec 1898 - 25 Oct 1899 Federal Government Junta (in rebellion)
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- Serapio Reyes Ortiz Aguilar
(b. 1822 - d. 1900) PL
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- Macario Pinilla Vargas
(b. 1855 - d. 1927)
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- Juan José
Manuel Inocencio Pando (b. 1849 - d. 1917) PL
- Solares
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25 Oct 1899 - 14 Aug 1904 Jaun José Manuel Inocencio Pando
(s.a.) PL
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Solares (interim from 6 Aug 1904)
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14 Aug 1904 - 12 Aug 1909 Ismael Montes Gamboa (1st time)
(b. 1861 - d. 1933) PL
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12 Aug 1909 - 14 Aug 1913 Eliodoro Villazón Montaño
(b. 1848 - d. 1939) PL
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14 Aug 1913 - 15 Aug 1917 Ismael Montes Gamboa (2nd time)
(s.a.)
PL
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15 Aug 1917 - 12 Jul 1920 José Gutiérrez Guerra
(b. 1869 - d. 1929) PL
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12 Jul 1920 - 13 Jul 1920 Rosa Bautista Saavedra Mallea
(b. 1870 - d. 1939) PR
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("Superior Political Chief")
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13 Jul 1920 - 28 Jan 1921 Government Junta
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- José María Escalier Villegas
(b. 1863 - d. 1934) PR
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- Rosa Bautista Saavedra Mallea
(s.a.)
PR
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- José Manuel Ramírez
(b. 1868 - d. 1934)
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28 Jan 1921 - 3 Sep 1925 Rosa Bautista Saavedra Mallea
(s.a.)
PR
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3 Sep 1925 - 10 Jan 1926 Felipe Segundo Guzmán (provisional)(b.
1879 - d. 1932) PR
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10 Jan 1926 - 28 May 1930 Mariano Hernando Siles Reyes
(b. 1882 - d. 1942) PR
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28 May 1930 - 25 Jun 1930 Council of Ministers (acting)
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- Alberto Díez de Medina Lértora (b.
1877 - d. 1932)
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- Germán Antelo Arauz
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(to 17 Jun 1930)
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- Franklin Mercado G.
(b. 1891 - d. 19..)
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- José David Toro Ruilova
(b. 1898 - d. 1977)
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- José Aguirre Achá
(b. 1877 - d. 1941)
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- Fidel Vega
(d. 1939)
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- Carlos Banzer Aliaga
(b. 1888 - d. bf.1972)
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- Ezequiel Romecín Calderón
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(from 17 Jun 1930)
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28 Jun 1930 - 5 Mar 1931 Carlos Blanco Galindo
(b. 1882 - d. 1943) Mil
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(president of the council of ministers
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of the Military Government Junta)
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5 Mar 1931 - 27 Nov 1934 Daniel Domingo Salamanca Urey
(b. 1869 - d. 1935) PR
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28 Nov 1934 - 17 May 1936 José Luis Tejada Sorzano
(b. 1882 - d. 1938) PL
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17 May 1936 - 20 May 1936 Germán Busch Becerra (1st time)
(b. 1903 - d. 1939) Mil
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(provisional chairman Government Junta)
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20 May 1936 - 13 Jul 1937 José David Toro Ruilova
(s.a.)
Mil
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(chairman Government Junta)
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13 Jul 1937 - 23 Aug 1939 Germán Busch Becerra (2nd time)
(s.a.)
Mil
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(chairman Government Junta to 28 May 1938)
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23 Aug 1939 - 15 Apr 1940 Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga
(b. 1888 - d. 1964) Mil
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(provisional)
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15 Apr 1940 - 20 Dec 1943 Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo
(b. 1892 - d. 1969) Mil
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20 Dec 1943 - 21 Jul 1946 Gualberto Villarroel López
(b. 1908 - d. 1946) Mil/
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(chairman Government Junta to 5 Apr 1944;
Radepa-MNR
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provisional president 5 Apr - 6 Aug 1944)
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21 Jul 1946 - 15 Aug 1946 Néstor Guillén Olmos
(b. 1890 - d. 1966) Non-party
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(Senior Judge to 22 Jul 1946, then
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chairman Provisional Government Junta)
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15 Aug 1946 - 10 Mar 1947 Tomás Monje Gutiérrez
(b. 1884 - d. 1954) Non-party
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(chairman Provisional Government Junta)
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10 Mar 1947 - 22 Oct 1949 José Enrique Hertzog Garaizábal
(b. 1897 - d. 1980) PURS
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22 Oct 1949 - 16 May 1951 Mamerto Urriolagoitia Harriague¹
(b. 1895 - d. 1974) PURS
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(acting [for Hertzog from 7 May 1949] to 24
Oct 1949)
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16 May 1951 - 11 Apr 1952 Hugo Ballivián Rojas
(b. 1901 - d. 1993) Mil
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(chairman military junta)
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11 Apr 1952 - 16 Apr 1952 Hernán Siles Zuazo (1st time)
(b. 1914 - d. 1996) MNR
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(provisional to 12 Apr 1952, then acting)
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16 Apr 1952 - 6 Aug 1956 Ángel Víctor Paz
Estenssoro (b. 1907 - d. 2001)
MNR
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(1st time)
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6 Aug 1956 - 6 Aug 1960 Hernán Siles Zuazo (2nd
time) (s.a.)
MNR
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6 Aug 1960 - 4 Nov 1964 Ángel Víctor Paz
Estenssoro (s.a.)
MNR
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(2nd time)
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Chairmen of the Military Junta
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4 Nov 1964 - 5 Nov 1964 Alfredo Ovando Candía
(1st time) (b. 1918 - d. 1982) Mil
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5 Nov 1964 (hours) Alfredo
Ovando Candía (2nd time)
(s.a.)
Mil
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+ René Barrientos Ortuño (1st
time)(b. 1919 - d. 1969) Mil
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(co-chairmen)
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5 Nov 1964 - 26 May 1965 René Barrientos Ortuño
(2nd time) (s.a.)
Mil
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26 May 1965 - 4 Jan 1966 René Barrientos Ortuño
(3rd time) (s.a.)
Mil/MPC
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+ Alfredo Ovando Candía (3rd time)
(s.a.)
Mil
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(co-chairmen)
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4 Jan 1966 - 6 Aug 1966 Alfredo Ovando Candía
(4th time) (s.a.)
Mil
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Presidents
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6 Aug 1966 - 27 Apr 1969 René Barrientos Ortuño
(s.a.)
FRB
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27 Apr 1969 - 26 Sep 1969 Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas
(b. 1925 - d. 2005) PSD-FRB
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26 Sep 1969 - 6 Oct 1970 Alfredo Ovando Candía
(s.a.)
Mil
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6 Oct 1970 - 7 Oct 1970 Military Junta
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- Efraín Guachalla Ibáñez
Mil
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- Fernando Sattori Ribera
(b. 1927 - d. 2005)
Mil
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- Alberto Albarracín Crespo
(b. 1922 - d. 2006) Mil
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7 Oct 1970 - 21 Aug 1971 Juan José Torres González
(b. 1921 - d. 1976) Mil
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21 Aug 1971 - 22 Aug 1971 Jaime Florentino Mendieta Vargas
(b. 1922)
Mil
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+ Hugo Banzer Suárez
(b. 1926 - d. 2002) Mil
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+ Andrés Selich Chop
(b. 1927? - d. 1973) Mil
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(junta chairmen)
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22 Aug 1971 - 21 Jul 1978 Hugo Banzer Suárez (1st time)
(s.a.)
Mil
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21 Jul 1978 (hours) Víctor González
Fuentes
Mil
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(chairman military junta)
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21 Jul 1978 - 24 Nov 1978 Juan Pereda Asbún
(b. 1931)
Mil
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24 Nov 1978 - 8 Aug 1979 David Padilla Arancibia
(b. 1927)
Mil
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8 Aug 1979 - 1 Nov 1979 Wálter Guevara Arze
(b. 1912 - d.
1996) MNRA
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(continues in dissidence to 17 Nov 1979)
- 1
Nov 1979 - 16 Nov 1979 Alberto Natusch Busch
(b. 1939 - d. 1994) Mil
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17 Nov 1979 - 18 Jul 1980 Lidia Gueiler Tejada (f)(acting)
(b. 1921 - d. 2011) PRIN
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18 Jul 1980 (hours) Junta
of Commanders
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- Luis García Meza Tejada
(b. 1929)
Mil
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(1st time)
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- Waldo Bernal Pereira (1st time) (b.
1934)
Mil
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- Ramiro Terrazas Rodríguez
(d. 1991)
Mil
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18 Jul 1980 - 4 Aug 1981 Luis García Meza Tejada
(2nd time) (s.a.)
Mil
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4 Aug 1981 - 4 Sep 1981 Junta of Commanders
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- Waldo Bernal Pereira (2nd time) (s.a.)
Mil
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- Celso Torrelio Villa
(b. 1933 - d. 1999) Mil
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- Óscar Jaime Pammo Rodríguez
(b. 1934)
Mil
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(1st time)
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4 Sep 1981 - 19 Jul 1982 Celso Torrelio Villa
(s.a.)
Mil
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19 Jul 1982 - 21 Jul 1982 Junta of Commanders
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- Natalio Morales Mosquera
(d. bf.1998)
Mil
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- Óscar Jaime Pammo Rodríguez
(s.a.)
Mil
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(2nd time)
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- Ángel Mariscal Gómez
Mil
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21 Jul 1982 - 10 Oct 1982 Guido Vildoso Calderón
(b. 1937)
Mil
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10 Oct 1982 - 6 Aug 1985 Hernán Siles Zuazo (3rd
time) (s.a.)
MNRI
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6 Aug 1985 - 6 Aug 1989 Víctor Paz Estenssoro
(3rd time) (s.a.)
MNR
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6 Aug 1989 - 6 Aug 1993 Jaime Paz Zamora
(b. 1939)
MIR
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6 Aug 1993 - 6 Aug 1997 Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
(b. 1930)
MNR
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Sánchez Bustamante (1st time)
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6 Aug 1997 - 7 Aug 2001 Hugo Banzer Suárez (2nd
time) (s.a.)
ADN
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7 Aug 2001 - 6 Aug 2002 Jorge Fernando Quiroga Ramírez
(b. 1960)
ADN
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(acting for Banzer 1 Jul - 7 Aug 2001)
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6 Aug 2002 - 17 Oct 2003 Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
(s.a.)
MNR
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Sánchez Bustamante (2nd time)
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17 Oct 2003 - 9 Jun 2005 Carlos Diego Mesa Gisbert
(b. 1953)
Non-party
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9 Jun 2005 - 22 Jan 2006 Enrique Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé (b. 1956)
Non-party
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22 Jan 2006 -
Juan Evo Morales Ayama
(b. 1959)
MAS
Territorial Dispute: Chile
and Peru rebuff Bolivia's reactivated claim to restore the Atacama corridor,
ceded to Chile in 1884, but Chile offers instead unrestricted but not sovereign
maritime access through Chile for Bolivian natural gas and other commodities;
an accord placed the long-disputed Isla Suárez/Ilha de Guajará-Mirim,
a fluvial island on the Río Mamoré, under Bolivian administration
in 1958, but sovereignty remains in dispute.
Party abbreviations: MAS = Movimiento al Socialism (Movement
Towards Socialism, socialist); MIR = Movimiento Izquierda Revolucionaria
(Movement of Revolutionary Left, social-democratic); MNR = Movimiento
Nacionalista Revolucionario (Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, centrist);
PODEMOS = Poder Democrático Social (Social and Democratic Power, 'We Can', center-right, formerly ADN); Mil
= Military; - Former parties: ADN = Alianza Democrática
Nacionalista (Nationalist Democratic Alliance, authoritarian populist, 2005 renamed PODEMOS);
FRB = Frente de la Revolución Boliviana; MNRA = Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario Auténtico (Authentic Nationalist Revolutionary
Movement); MNRI = Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario de Izquierda (Nationalist Revolutionary
Left Movement); MPC = Movimiento Popular Cristiano (Popular Christian Movement,
pro-R.B. Barrientos 1966-1969); PC = Partido Conservador (Conservative Party); PL = Partido
Liberal (Liberal Party); PRIN = Partido Revolucionario de la Izquierda Nacionalista (Revolutionary
Party of the National Left); PP = Partido Populista (Populist Party);
PR = Partido Republicano (Republican Party, conservative); PSD = Partido Socialista Democrática (Social
Democratic Party, member of FRB); PURS = Partido de la Unión
Republicana Socialista (Socilist Republican Union Party); Radepa = Razón de Patria (Fatherland's Cause, nationalist)
Provinces of Upper PeruCochabamba
28 Jan 1782 Intendencia of Cochabamba (part of Río de la Plata).
1810
End of Spanish rule.
11 Aug 1825
Part of Bolivia.
Governors 1776 - 1780
Francisco de Viedma y Narváez
1780 - 1783
Félix José Villalobos
Governor-Intendants
1783 - 1784
Félix José Villalobos
1784 - ....
Martín de Mendoza
.... - 1809 Francisco de Viedma y Narváez (b. 1737 - d. 1809)
1809 - 1810
José González de Amada
1810 - 1811
Francisco del Rivero
1811
Antonio Allende
1811 - 1812
Joaquín Mariano Antezana
1812 - 1813
Gerónimo Marrón de Lombera
1813
Miguel José de Cabrera
1813
Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales (b. 1770 - d. 1831)
(1st time)
1813 - 1814
Martín de Jáuregui
1814 - 1815
Antonio de Goyburo
1815 - 1816
Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales (s.a.)
(2nd time)
1816 - 1817
Military Tribunal of Purification 1817 - 1823
José de Mendizábal e Ymas
1823 - 1824
José Miguel de Velasco Franco (b. 1795 - d. 1859)
1824 - 1825
Martín Ruiz de Somocurcio
1825
Pedro Antonio de Assúa
Córdoba28 Jan 1782 - 1810 Intendencia of Córdoba (part of Río de la Plata).
Governor-Intendants
1784 - 1797
Rafael de Sobremonte Núñez Castillo (b. 1745 - d. 1827)
Angulo y Bullón Ramírez de
Arellano, marqués de Sobremonte
1797 - 1803
Nicolás Pérez del Viso
1803 - 1805
José González
1805 - 1807
Victoriano Rodríguez
1807 - 1810
Juan Gutiérrez de la Concha (b.
1760 - d. 1810)
La Paz28 Jan 1782 Intendencia of La Paz (part of Río de la Plata).
1811
Annexed to Peru.
12 Jul 1809 - 30 Sep 1809 Under the Revolutionary Junta.
Jan 1811 - Jul 1811 Argentine
occupation.
11 Aug 1825
Part of Bolivia.
Governor-Intendants
1 Jan 1784 - 1789
Joseph Sebastián de Segurota y
Machain
1789 - 1790
José Pablo Conti
1790 - 1791
Augustín de Goyoneta (acting)
1791 - 1793
Juan Manuel Álvarez
1793 Pedro Nolasco Crespo
1793 - 1795
Francisco Antonio Dionisio Cuéllar
Artucho Carrillo de los Ríos
Ronsvi Valdés
1795 - 1796
Fernando de la Sota Agüero
(interim)
1797 - 1805
Antonio de Burgunyó y Juan
1805 - 12 Jul 1809
Tadeo Dávila
12 Jul 1809 - 30 Sep 1809 Pedro Domingo Murillo (b. 1756 - d. 1809)
(President of Junta of Defense of
the Rights of the King and the Town)
30 Sep 1809 - Jan 1810
Juan Ramíerz Orosco
(b. 1764 - d. c.1823)
Jul 1810 Juan José Castelli (b. 1764 - d. 1812)
(revolutionary government)
Jul 1810 - 1813
Domingo Tristán y Moscoso
1813 - 1814
Gregorio de Hoyos de Miranda García
de Llano, marqués de Valde Hoyos
24 Sep 1814 - 4 Nov 1814 Jose Astete
(revolutionary government)
5 Nov 1814 - 26 Oct 1816 José María Landaberi (interim) 26 Oct 1816 - 1 Feb 1817 Mariano Ricafort Palacín y Abarca (b. 1776 - d. 1846)
1 Feb 1817 - 1822
Juan Sánchez Lima
1822 - 1823
Francisco Huarte y Jáuregui 1823 José Ramón de Loayza Pacheco
Salgado (revolutionary government)
1823 - 29 Jan 1825
José de Mendizábal e Imaz
- Potosí
28 Jan 1782
Intendencia of Potosí (part of Río de la Plata). 1811
Annexed to Peru. 25 Nov 1811 - 20 Sep 1811 Argentine occupation. May 1813 - Dec 1813 Argentine
occupation. May 1815 - Dec 1815 Argentine
occupation. 11 Aug 1825
Part of Bolivia.Governor-Intendants
1783 - 1789
Juan del Pino Manrique de Lara
1789 - 1810
Francisco de Paula Sanz
(d. 1810)
25 Nov 1810 - 1811
Juan José Castelli
(b. 1764 - d. 1812)
1811 - 20 Sep 1811
Juan Martín de Pueyrredón
(b. 1777 - d. 1850)
20 Sep 1811 - May 1813 José Manuel de Goyeneche y Barreda (b. 1776 - d. 1846)
May 1813 - Dec 1813 Manual
Belgrano
(b. 1770 - d. 1820)
Dec 1813 - Apr 1815 Joaquín
de la Pezuela, (b. 1761 - d. 1830)
marqués de Viluma Apr
1815 - Jul 1815
Juan Rondeau
(b. 1775 - d. 1844)
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