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Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas
president of Bolivia
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history of Bolivia
- In Bolivia: Return to military rule
…1969 brought the vice president, Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, into office; he was forcibly replaced in midyear by General Alfredo Ovando Candía, who nationalized Gulf Oil Company holdings. Ovando was in turn forced out of office in October 1970 by the more radical General Juan José Torres. Of the several…
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