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
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 Revolutionar
Montenegro seated at his office.