Néstor Guillén assumed office as the interim 40th President of Bolivia on 21 July 1946, and his mandate ended on 17 August 1946. A magistrate of the Superior District Court of La Paz, Guillén was chos
Aniceto Solares – Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Education (PRG)
Aurelio Alcoba – Minister of Work and Health (PIR)
Gualberto Villarroel López was a Bolivian military officer who served as the 39th president of Bolivia from 1943 to 1946. A reformist, sometimes compared with Argentina's Juan Perón, he is nonetheless
Portrait of Villarroel as president by Luis Walpher, 1954
President Gualberto Villarroel is lynched and hanged in Plaza Murillo, 21 July 1946
The newspaper Times-Picayune reports on the death of Villarroel, 22 July 1946