What the records say
- When
- 26 Sep 1969
- Kind
- Coup
- Coordinates
- 16.50° S, 68.13° W
- Description
- military coup in Bolivia
1969 Bolivian coup d'état
Military coup in Bolivia
1969 Bolivian coup d'état was a military coup carried out by the Bolivian commander Alfredo Ovando Candía that deposed President Luís Adolfo Siles Salinas, former vice-president of René Barrientos who had taken office after his death. Ovando seized power in the name of a "nationalist and revolutionary" program formulated in the Revolutionary Mandate of the Armed Forces.
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- Wikidata: treaties and coupsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Cline Center Coup d’État Project v2.2.2Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, University of Illinois · names it “Coup in Bolivia”Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
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