René Barrientos

René Barrientos was a Bolivian air force officer and politician who became president after the 1964 coup and served until his death in 1969.

Bolivian National Revolution: A 1952 uprising that brought the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement to power and transformed Bolivia’s political and social order. Its reforms and political conflicts shaped the state Barrientos later helped overthrow.
Alfredo Ovando Candía: A Bolivian army general who shared power with Barrientos after the 1964 coup and later became president. Their alternating leadership formalized the military partnership behind the regime.
Che Guevara's Bolivian campaign: The 1966–1967 guerrilla campaign led by Che Guevara in southeastern Bolivia. Its defeat became the regime’s most internationally visible military success.
Juan José Torres: A Bolivian general and politician who served as president from 1970 to 1971 and pursued a left-wing nationalist program. Torres’s reformist military government sharply differed from Barrientos’s conservative anti-communism.
Revolutionary Nationalist Movement: A Bolivian political party that led the 1952 revolution and governed the country for much of the following decade. Its division in the early 1960s weakened the civilian government Barrientos displaced.
1966 Bolivian general election: The election that returned René Barrientos to the Bolivian presidency with a civilian mandate. Barrientos used the vote to strengthen legitimacy after two years of military rule.
Execution of Che Guevara: The killing of Che Guevara by Bolivian soldiers in La Higuera on 9 October 1967. Barrientos’s government authorized the handling of Guevara after his capture.
Hugo Banzer: A Bolivian general who ruled as president from 1971 to 1978 and again from 1997 to 2001. Banzer’s later dictatorship extended military rule through a more sustained authoritarian regime.
Víctor Paz Estenssoro: A Bolivian politician who served four terms as president and led the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement. Barrientos helped remove Paz Estenssoro in the 1964 coup.
Bolivian labor movement: Trade unions and worker organizations that have shaped Bolivia’s politics, especially in mining and industry. Barrientos sought to weaken organized labor while courting workers through his personal political style.

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