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 remembered for his alleged fascist sympathies and his violent demise on 21 July 1946.
Gualberto Villarroel
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
The president of Bolivia, officially known as the president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is head of state and head of government of Bolivia and the captain general of the Armed Forces of Bolivia.
The Casa Grande del Pueblo is current residence of the president of Bolivia
The Colorados of Bolivia in their traditional uniform.
Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president.