Gualberto Villaroel

president of Bolivia

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In Bolivia: The rise of new political groups and the Bolivian National Revolution
…a new-style government under Colonel Gualberto Villaroel (1943–46), but little was accomplished except for the MNR’s political mobilization of the Indian peasants. Opposed as fascist-oriented by the right and left, the Villaroel government was overthrown in 1946 in a bloody revolution in which Villaroel was hanged in front of the…
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