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    René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño (30 May 1919 – 27 April 1969) was a Bolivian military officer and politician who served as the 47th president of Bolivia...
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    outside the government palace. Germán Busch committed suicide and René Barrientos died in a helicopter crash; both deaths are rumored to have been planned...
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  • Ireneo "Rene" Barrientos (born February 28, 1943) is a Filipino former professional boxer. He competed from 1962 to 1978 and held the WBC Lightweight and...
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  • Espino Barrientos (born 1959), president of the National Action Party (PAN) of Mexico Nora Barrientos (born 1960), Chilean politician René Barrientos (1919–1969)...
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    Estenssoro, to a military junta under vice-president General René Barrientos. Barrientos was elected president in 1966 but died suspiciously in a helicopter...
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    Force René Barrientos, toppled Paz from power. They ruled together in a Junta (sometimes called "The Co-Presidency) until January 1966, when Barrientos resigned...
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  • He was head of intelligence in the interior ministry of President René Barrientos, and in this role, he played a part in the 1967 capture and execution...
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    through tragic circumstances (Adolfo Ballivián, Germán Busch, and René Barrientos). Three were assassinated (Pedro Blanco Soto, Agustín Morales, and...
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  • coup under the leadership of René Barrientos and General Alfredo Ovando Candía. Its purpose was to support René Barrientos in the general election the...
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    revolutionary Ernesto Guevara. De Almeida played President René Barrientos, a former Bolivian politician who served as his country's Vice President...
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    the Ministry of Education and Culture in the government of General René Barrientos, a personal friend. Banzer became increasingly involved in politics...
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    infiltrated Bolivian high society and developed ties with Bolivian President René Barrientos. In 1966, her cover was blown, leading her to join Guevara's armed...
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    in 1970, when he was projected to run as Barrientos' successor. But Ovando's disagreements with Barrientos on a number of important issues during the...
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    vice-president René Barrientos and Alfredo Ovando, commander of the army. Paz flew to a long exile to Lima, Peru, bitter toward René Barrientos' betrayal and...
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  • d'état in Bolivia was a coup under the leadership of Vice-president René Barrientos and Bolivian Army commander-in-chief Alfredo Ovando Candía against...
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    a guerrilla campaign against the military government of President René Barrientos, he assembled a band of 29 Bolivians, 25 Cubans, and a few foreigners...
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  • 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...
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    supported the November 1964 coup d'état by vice-president, General René Barrientos and army chief Alfredo Ovando — but was later exiled when it became...
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    went into exile abroad after the MNR was toppled from power by generals Barrientos and Ovando. She spent the next fifteen years out of the country, and joined...
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    fighting against". Later on the morning of 9 October, Bolivian President René Barrientos ordered that Guevara be killed. The order was relayed to the unit holding...
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  • revolutionary Che Guevara planned to initiate a guerrilla war against René Barrientos, Bolivia's military dictator. The PCB initially pledged its support...
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  • Hemisphere. The army was acting under the orders of President René Barrientos. President René Barrientos believed that the start of a new guerrilla resistance...
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  • time to have power over the country to become a dictator, President René Barrientos Ortuño signs the Supreme Decree 08395, on June 19, 1968, with which...
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    the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra was conceived in 1965 by General René Barrientos, former president of Bolivia, with the intention of creating an intercontinental...
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    (1956–1960) ▌Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1960–1964) ▌René Barrientos (1964–1966) ▌Alfredo Ovando Candía (1966) ▌René Barrientos (1966–1969) ▌Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas...
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    Mesa). René Barrientos was the only vice president to assume the presidency by deposing his own predecessor, Víctor Paz Estenssoro. When Barrientos died...
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    (1956–1960) ▌Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1960–1964) ▌René Barrientos (1964–1966) ▌Alfredo Ovando Candía (1966) ▌René Barrientos (1966–1969) ▌Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas...
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    In 1967, the party took part in the Government of the president of René Barrientos Ortuño, being given responsibility for the Ministry of Labour and Social...
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    "finished his cycle and ... should go home." Civic Community Senator Andrea Barrientos claimed that the incident proved that "the people have lost their fear...
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  • Paz Estenssoro, President (1960–1964) René Barrientos, Chairman of the Military Junta (1964–1965) René Barrientos and Alfredo Ovando Candía, Co-Chairmen...
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