Juan Bautista Saavedra
president of Bolivia
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role in history of Bolivia
- In Bolivia: The Republican Party
…conflict between two Montes-style politicians—Juan Bautista Saavedra, a La Paz lawyer who captured control of the Republican Party’s junta in 1920 and was national president from 1921 to 1925, and Daniel Salamanca, a Cochabamba landowner who took his following into a separate party, the so-called Genuine Republican Party, which…
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