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    Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas (21 June 1925 – 19 October 2005) was a Bolivian politician who served as the 49th president of Bolivia in 1969 and as the 31st...
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    raised by his mother. His half-brother Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas was president for five months in 1969. In 1931 Siles graduated from the American Institute...
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  • Bolivian commander Alfredo Ovando Candía that deposed President Luís Adolfo Siles Salinas, former vice-president of René Barrientos who had taken office...
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    from 1956 to 1960, and again from 1982 to 1985. His younger son Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas was acting President of Bolivia for a few months in 1969. v t...
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    1969, initially left control in the hands of his vice president, Luís Adolfo Siles Salinas (1969). Real power, however, remained with the armed forces under...
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    presidency during a presidential term (José Luis Tejada Sorzano, Mamerto Urriolagoitía, Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, Jorge Quiroga, and Carlos Mesa). Tejada...
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    Luis Alberto Arce Catacora (Latin American Spanish: [ˈlwis alˈβeɾto ˈaɾse kataˈkoɾa]; born 28 September 1963), often referred to as Lucho, is a Bolivian...
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    the leader of the small Christian Democrat Party of Bolivia, Dr. Luis Adolfo Siles. He was fiercely anti-communist and pro-free market. Accepting more...
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    President Hernán Siles. The result was the formation of the Unidad Democrática y Popular (UDP). It was a mutually beneficial pact, since Siles offered everything...
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    named Luis Adolfo Siles, was sworn as president soon thereafter, in accordance to the Constitution. Siles' poor relations with Ovando led Siles to support...
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    secured a place in a diplomatic mission to Great Britain with the lawyer Luis López Méndez [es] and Andrés Bello by paying for the mission. The trio boarded...
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    Paz Estenssoro. When Barrientos died suddenly on 27 April 1969, Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas became the only vice president to become president through their...
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    former president Hernán Siles Zuazo well ahead, though short of a majority. On 5 October, Congress overwhelmingly elected Siles as president. Vildoso returned...
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    1920–1921, 1970, 1978, 1981, and 1982. For one month in 1928, Hernando Siles Reyes' cabinet ruled the country being the only time when a constituted...
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    José Luis Tejada Sorzano, Miguel Larrabure, Carlos Bustillos, Max de la Vega, Óscar Núñez del Prado, Miguel Solares, Augusto Cusicanqui, Luis Maidana...
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    Democratic Revolutionary Front-New Alternative backing ex-President Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, which polled few votes; the leader of the PDC Benjamín Miguel...
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    elected that year. That body duly elected Siles as president. Banzer opposed bitterly the UDP government of Siles which lasted from 1982 to 1985, but turned...
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    Alternative (FDR-NA). The coalition presented Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, former president and half-brother of Hernán Siles Zuazo, as their candidate with Benjamin...
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  • 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...
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  • Siles Zuazo. For the 1980 elections, the ALIN was the component of the Democratic Revolutionary Front-New Alternative, with Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas...
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    April 2018. "La Razón (Bolivia) - Murió Luis García Meza". m.la-razon.com. "Bolivia's 'Cocaine Coup' dictator Luis Garcia Meza dies at 88 - DW - 29.04.2018"...
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  • Revolutionary Front-New Alternative, with the OID's leader Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas as the coalition's presidential candidate. In 1985, it took part...
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    by soldiers, beaten up, and burned to death. In 1982 the leftist Hernán Siles Zuazo and the Democratic and Popular Union (Unidad Democrática y Popular...
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    unify the Bolivian opposition and prevent the socialist MAS-IPSP candidate Luis Arce from emerging victorious. Quiroga was born in Cochabamba. He graduated...
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    some prior ones, with the exception of Víctor Paz Estenssoro and Hernán Siles Zuazo, neither of whom, with few exceptions, ever accepted invitations to...
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    The channel was established in August 1969 under the government of Luis Adolfo Siles after years of planning by the government of then-recently deceased...
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  • strategies they believed necessary to achieve it. Led by Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas (Hernán Siles Zuazo's half-brother), Roberto Arce, Manfredo Kempf Mercado...
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    he resigned the leadership of the MNR. The governments of Evo Morales and Luis Arce have unsuccessfully sought his extradition from the U.S. to stand trial...
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    coup d'état: General Alfredo Ovando Candía overthrew President Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas. 1969 Somali coup d'état: Military officers led by Siad Barre...
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    elections of 1925, but lost to Saavedra's handpicked successor, Hernando Siles. Shaken by his defeats, Salamanca retired from politics and dedicated himself...
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