Carlos Montenegro Quiroga was a Bolivian lawyer, journalist, politician, and writer who served as minister of agriculture from 1943 to 1944. He was the principal political theorist of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, co-founding the party newspaper La Calle which laid the ideological bases of the party. His most famous work, Nacionalismo y coloniaje (1943), an essay on the influence of journalism in the history of Bolivia, is considered to be one of the most influential works in Bolivian historiography.
Carlos Montenegro
Montenegro (far left) with other conspirators that planned and executed the fall of President José Luis Tejada Sorzano in May 1936.
Montenegro seated at his office.
Víctor Germán Busch Becerra was a Bolivian military officer and statesman who served as the 36th president of Bolivia from 1937 to 1939. Prior to his presidency, he served as the Chief of the General Staff and was the Supreme Leader of the Legion of Veterans, a veterans' organization founded by him after his service in the Chaco War.
Official photograph with the Presidential Medal.
Germán's father Pablo Busch Wiesener, c. 1930.
Busch (standing, second from left) as a cadet at the Military College of the Army.
Wedding photograph of Germán Busch and Matilde Carmona, 1928.
