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Narciso Campero
General Narciso Campero Leyes (1815-1896) was president of Bolivia from 1880 to 1884. The Narciso Campero Province was named after him.
A career military officer of unimpeacheable credentials, Campero took control of his country's fate at the invitation of an emergency Congress, in the difficult aftermath of the loss of the War of the Pacific against Chile . He was given a four-year term, and his presidency marks the beginning of the long, civilian-controlled oligarchic period of Bolivian politics. This was an era in which the military for the most part remained firmly ensconced in its barracks and conservative propertied ...
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