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Bautista Saavedra
Bautista Saavedra Mallea (1870-1939) was President of Bolivia, first as part of a governing junta between 1920-21, and then as constitutionally-elected President of the Republic between 1921 and 1925. As leader of the insurgent Republican Party, he instigated and led the coup d'etat of 1920 against the long-ruling Liberal party of President Jose Gutierrez Guerra. He had a turbulent term, as his party fragmented almost immediately after the coup of 1921, with a large fraction of it going on to form the Partido Republicano-Genuino (Genuine Republican party). Essentially, the split was due to opposition to the largely personalist, centralized, and ...
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