1964 Bolivian coup d'état
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1964 Bolivian coup d'état in Bolivia was a coup under the leadership of Vice-president René Barrientos and Bolivian Army commander-in-chief Alfredo Ovando Candía against the President Víctor Paz Estenssoro, leader of the Bolivian National Revolution of 1952, who recently had been re-elected for his third term in office.
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Víctor Paz Estenssoro |
René Barrientos Alfredo Ovando Candía |
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There are those who label the November 4th coup as a counterrevolution. Both Barrientos and Ovando called their coup process a "Restorative Revolution", alleging a continuation of the 1952 Revolution.[1] The fall of the MNR would begin an 18-year period of military regimes in Bolivia (1964-1982).[2]