Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga

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Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga (around 1940)

Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga (born January 22, 1888 in Cochabamba , † June 8, 1964 ibid) was a Bolivian general and president.

Life

Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga was the son of Carlota Quiroga and Genaro Quintanilla. He was married to María Lila Navajas Trigo; her son was Carlos Quintanilla Navajas (* 1935 in Tarija ; † 2009). He studied at the Colegio Militar and took part in advanced training in the German Reich. He was in command of the troops in the Chaco War .

Under the government of Germán Busch Becerra , he became the commander of the armed forces of Bolivia and replaced them as president after his suicide . Since the El corralito de Villamontes on November 27, 1934, when Daniel Salamanca Urey wanted to replace the General Staff and was then replaced by Vice President José Luis Tejada Sorzano at the instigation of Chief of Staff Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo , Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo has been pulling the strings of power Bolivia. One of the contrivances used to ensure that Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo was elected president was Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga becoming president, rather than Senate Chairman Enrique Baldivieso Aparicio, as provided for in the constitution. In addition, he sent Bernardino Bilbao Rioja, a potential opponent, into exile and decreed general elections for March 3, 1940.

A law had been passed under the Busch government that would have expropriated the foreign currency of the transnational mining companies in Bolivia. Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga decreed on October 1, 1939 that this expropriation was temporarily postponed.

From 1940 to 1941 he was ambassador to Pius XII.

Government cabinet

  • Interior Minister: Vicente Leytón has been replaced by his wife's brother, Bernardo Navajas Trigo.
  • Minister of Education: Víctor Cabrera Lozada
  • A little later he had Carlos Salinas Aramayo replaced as Ministro de Agricultura by Jorge Mercado Rosales.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga
predecessor Office successor
Germán Busch Becerra Bolivian President
August 23, 1939 to March 12, 1940 		Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo
Gabriel Gosálvez Tejada Bolivian Ambassador to the Holy See
1940 to 1941 		Eduardo Arze Quiroga
personal data
SURNAME Quintanilla Quiroga, Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bolivian general and president
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Cochabamba
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1964
Place of death Cochabamba