Collection (1928- ) 1940-1998.

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Collection (1928- ) 1940-1998.

Documents of the MNR selected by the Centre pour la Sauvegarde de la Mémoire Populaire (CESAME) in Paris consisting of some correspondence 1952, 1986-1992; foundation charter 1941; pamphlets, copies of periodicals, leaflets, reports, posters and other printed documents of the MNR on the national revolutionary movement, on the counter-revolution of July 1946 and the power of the Bolivian oligarchy, on the revolution of April 1952 and its commemorations (1962-1992), on the government programs of the MNR, on the economic and social reforms, including the nationalization of the mines and agricultural reforms 1952-1997, on the position of Hernán Siles Zuazo in 1979, on the modernization of the MNR and on the election campaigns in the 1980s and 1990s; printed speeches by Víctor Paz Estenssoro 1953-1989; copies of periodicals 1954-1996; press clippings 1948-1992. Annual reports of ministries 1993-1997; correspondence by José Fellman Velarde 1962-1964; files on the Indians' movement 1945, the confinement of MNR militants 1948-1950, agricultural reforms 1953-1956, economic policy 1954 and other subjects; documents relating to the 3rd congress 'Indigenista interamericano' 1951, the Comisiíon de Minería 1952-1965, the Confederaciíon de Trabajadores Campesinos 1953-1959, the 2nd Congress of the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) 1956-1957 and the Comisiíon de Petroleo 1956-1963; texts of speeches by Ñuflo Chávez Ortíz, including his interruptions in parliament 1954-1960; appeals of the MNR 1960, 1962; reports on the Bolivian constitution 1956, drugs traffic 1958-1961, the railways 1961, the mining congress in 1961 and other subjects; pamphlets, clippings and other printed documents 1940-1950, 1954-1964, 1970, 1998.

903 microfiches.

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Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (Bolivia)

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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 ...