Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (Bolivia)

Founded in 1941 the MNR became the most important of Bolivia's populist political parties; backed by a group of young military reformers the MNR came to power by a coup d'état in 1943; Gualberto Villarroel became president; a counter-revolution in 1946 ended MNR rule; after years of suppression and the obstruction by the military of the electoral victory of the MNR in 1951, a successful revolt in 1952 brought the MNR again to power; Víctor Paz Estenssoro became president; in 1964 the MNR lost its power to military governments, which included the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer Suárez from 1971 to 1978; at the beginning of the 1980s the MNR was deeply factionalized between a left tendency led by Hernán Siles Zuazo and a more conservative tendency led by Paz Estenssoro; in 1985 Paz Estenssoro became president; his deflationary new economic policy ended the nation's hyperinflation; an alliance with the Acción Democrática Nacionalista (ADN) of former President Banzer Suárez guaranteed a parliamentary majority for some time; in 1989 this p̀act for democracy' broke up; the MNR won the subsequent elections but lost the presidency.

From the description of Collection (1928- ) 1940-1998. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82747416