Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas

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Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas

president of Bolivia

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Bolivia
Return to military rule
…1969 brought the vice president, Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, into office; he was forcibly replaced in midyear by Gen. Alfredo Ovando Candía, who nationalized Gulf Oil Company holdings. Ovando was in turn forced out of office in October 1970 by the more radical Gen. Juan José Torres. Of the several…
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…1969 brought the vice president, Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, into office; he was forcibly replaced in midyear by Gen. Alfredo Ovando Candía, who nationalized Gulf Oil Company holdings. Ovando was in turn forced out of office in October 1970 by the more radical Gen. Juan José Torres. Of the several…
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