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13-523: The Genuine Republican Party was formed by a conservative sector. The Republican Government of Bautista Saavedra enacted progressive social and labor codes and doubled government taxes on mining. Frightened, the urban upper class and traditional rural and regional elites rallied around Daniel Salamanca, a Cochabamba Department landowner and old-style patrician. The program of this party advocated recovery of Bolivian territory and freedom of speech. In May and December 1925 Daniel Salamanca unsuccessfully ran in

26-665: Is Charazani . The region is famous for the Kallawaya culture with its traditional medicine practices which was declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Patrimony of the Humanity by the UNESCO on November 7, 2003. Bautista Saavedra Province is located between 14° 45' and 15° 20' South and between 68° 18' and 69° 12' West . It extends over 65 km from north to south, and up to 90 km from west to east. The province

39-480: Is situated on the Bolivian Altiplano northeast of Lake Titicaca and borders Franz Tamayo Province in the northeast to northwest, Peru in the west, Eliodoro Camacho Province in the southwest, and Muñecas Province and Larecaja Province in the southeast. Madidi National Park is partially in this province. The Apolobamba mountain range traverses the province. Some of the highest mountains of

52-661: The war exacerbated severe economic problems in Bolivia (dating from the Great Depression of 1929), while causing many thousands of casualties. On 27 November 1934, the Bolivian military deposed Daniel Salamanca. In 1940 the party formed The Concordance with Liberals to counter the rising tide of radical and revolutionary parties; the Concordance supported the candidate Enrique Peñaranda . On 10 November 1946,

65-686: The Genuine Republican Party merged with the Republican Socialist Party , the United Socialist Party and Independent Socialist Party to form the new Republican Socialist Unity Party . This article about a Bolivian political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bautista Saavedra Bautista Saavedra Mallea (30 August 1870 in Sorata – 1 March 1939)

78-594: The President of the Senate. The latter, clearly a "Saavedra's man," called elections for 1926. Saavedra thus renewed his quest to find the ideal proxy candidate through which to rule. He found the perfect man in Hernando Siles , who ran in the elections along with Bautista Saavedra's own brother, Abdón Saavedra , as his Vice-Presidential running mate. This allowed the meddling former President to continue to run

91-585: The coup, with a large fraction of it going on to form the Partido Republicano-Genuino (Genuine Republican party). Essentially, the split was due to opposition to the largely personalist, centralized, and caudillo -like governing style of Saavedra. He quickly expelled from the country most top-leaders of the Genuino party, and often made use of extra-constitutional means to remain in power. Unable to run for re-election in 1925, Saavedra did

104-464: The next best thing and made sure a hand-picked successor would follow him, presumably one firmly under his thumb. His first choice, Gabino Villanueva, failed to be sufficiently pliable for the President's liking, and Saavedra annulled the 1925 elections on a technicality. Nationwide protests at this transparent effort to manipulate the elections and prolong Saavedra's stay in office forced the President to resign, leaving in his place Felipe Segundo Guzmán ,

117-453: The presidential elections. Shaken by his defeats, he retired from politics and dedicated himself to teaching law. After the military overthrow of Hernando Siles Reyes in 1930, he was asked to head a coalition of Genuine Republicans and Liberals . He was elected president and took office on 5 March 1931. The Salamanca government introduced an impopular austerity program and harshly clamped down on political opposition. The eventual escalation of

130-473: The province are listed below: The population of Bautista Saavedra Province has increased by 30% over the recent two decades: 41.3% of the population are younger than 15 years old. (1992) 46.6% of the population speak Spanish , 89.3% speak Quechua , and 36.1% Aymara . (2001) The literacy rate of the province's population is 55.2%. (1992) 94.3% of the population have no access to electricity, 93.3% have no sanitary facilities. (1992) 89.1% of

143-584: The strings of the Bolivian government. However, President Siles eventually, tired of Saavedra's heavy-handed meddling, exiled him along with his brother (his own Vice-President). Saavedra remained an influential political leader after that, but never returned to power, especially since his arch-rivals of the Partido Republicano Genuino finally gained power in 1930. He died while exiled in Chile on May 1, 1939. The Bautista Saavedra Province

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156-418: Was a Bolivian lawyer and politician who served as the 29th president of Bolivia from 1921 to 1925. Prior to that, he was part of a governing junta from 1920 to 1921. As leader of the insurgent Republican Party, he instigated and led the coup d'état of 1920 against the long-ruling Liberal Party of President José Gutiérrez Guerra . He had a turbulent term, as his party fragmented almost immediately after

169-489: Was named after this former president. Its capital is Charazani . Bautista Saavedra Province Bautista Saavedra is one of the twenty provinces of the Bolivian La Paz Department situated in the northwestern parts of the department. It was created on November 17, 1948 in honor of Bautista Saavedra Mallea (1870-1939) who was Bolivia's president from 1920 to 1925. The capital of the province

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