Víctor Paz Estenssoro
Biography of an Bolivian Statesman
Description:... DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOKThis study of the life of Víctor Paz Estenssoro is divided into two parts: the first half of the book consists of a biography of Paz up to his death in 2001; the second half, in the Appendix, is his autobiography up to 1973 in the form of Paz's own narrative presented here as a transcribed text of 12 hours of tape-recorded interviews conducted by Dr. Holtey in that year in La Paz, Bolivia. This new narrative by Paz relates major facts about his ancestry and events in his life up to July 1973.The biographical portion of the present study by the historian Joseph C. Holtey PhD is an analysis of the politically significant events that occurred during the life and times of Víctor Paz Estenssoro, the most important political leader in twentieth-century Bolivian history. It focuses principally on his professional career between the years 1938 and 1989Paz was the leader of the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR), a political party which fought the Bolivian National Revolution in the Bolivian Congress as well as in the streets to liberate the working masses from the social and economic slavery imposed on them for many decades by an oligarchy composed of owners of very large tin mines and huge landed estates. As leader of the MNR he played an essential role in the unfolding of the Bolivian National Revolution.
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