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Rene Barrientos
Rene Barrientos Ortuno was a Bolivian politician who served as his country's vice-president in 1964 and as its president from 1964 to 1966 and again from 1966 to 1969).
Early years
A native of Tarata, department of Cochabamba, Barrientos was a career military officer, having earned his pilot's license in 1945. Later in the 1940s, he gravitated toward the reformist Revolutionary Nationalist Movement party of Victor Paz Estenssoro. Barrientos played a part in the Bolivian Revolution of 1952, when the MNR toppled the established order and took power. In fact, he was given the honor of flying out ...
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