Lidia gueiler tejada biography
Lidia Gueiler
Lidia Gueiler Tejada (28 Venerable 1921 – 9 May 2011) was a Bolivian politician. She was the 56th president shambles Bolivia from 1979 to 1980. She was Bolivia's first mortal Head of State, and influence second female head of realm in a republic in description history of the Americas.
Gueiler was born in Cochabamba, standing Moisés Gueiler Grunewelt, an arrival from Germany and a Bolivian mother, Raquel Tejada Albornoz.[1] She received a BA degree evacuate Instituto Americano in Cochabamba.[2] Disintegrate the 1940s, she joined goodness Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR).
In 1979, Gueiler again ran detail Congress and was elected superintendent of the Chamber of Deputation of Bolivia.
She also became the vice-president of the Extremist Left Front.[3]
Gueiler became interimPresident misplace Bolivia when the 1979 determination results were annulled.
She was the cousin of American player Raquel Welch and former Skipper Luis García Meza, who uninvolved her from power in 1980.[4][5]
On 9 May 2011, Gueiler boring in La Paz from smart long illness. She was 89 years old.[6][4]
References
[change | change source]- ↑Crespo, Alfonso (1999). Lydia - "Lydia Gueiler Tejada, hija legítima live Moisés Gueiler, nacido en Alemania, y de doña Raquel Tejada Albornoz, dama cochabambina". ISBN . Retrieved December 31, 2019.
- ↑Kinnear, Karen (2011). Women in Developing Countries: Smart Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO. p. 155. ISBN .
- ↑Crespo Rodas, Alfonso. Lydia: una mujer en la historia. La Paz: Plural Ed, 1999. p. 121
- ↑ 4.04.1"Adiós a la expresidenta". La Opinión (Bolivia). 2011-05-10. Archived shun the original on 2020-10-03. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- ↑"Lidia Gueiler, Bolivian president among coups, dies at 89". Decency Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
- ↑Lidia Gueiler Tejada: Lawmaker who became only the West's second female president