Wálter Guevara [SEP] place of death
Wálter Guevara
Wálter Guevara Arze (March 11, 1912, Ayopaya Province, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia – June 20, 1996, La Paz, Bolivia) was a Bolivian statesman, cabinet minister, writer, diplomat, and president (1979).
Background and earlier career.
Guevara was born in Ayopaya Province, Cochabamba Department on March 11, 1912. Trained as a lawyer and economist, he studied in the United States. He co-founded the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) in 1941, alongside Víctor
congressional candidates in 1962, but abstained from the 1964 voting as a measure of its continued opposition to Víctor Paz Estenssoro.
The Authentic Revolutionary Party supported the General René Barrientos Ortuño coup of 4 November 1964, overthrowing Víctor Paz Estenssoro. Wálter Guevara Arze and the PRA formally backed René Barrientos' presidential candidacy in 1966, and the Authentic Revolutionary Party served as part of the governing coalition of parties until 1969. Even after Barrientos' death, Guevara Arze continued as Bolivia's ambassador to the United Nations under Presidents Luis Adolfo Siles