Eliodoro Camacho

Eliodoro Camacho (* 1831 in Inquisivi ; † 1899 in La Paz ) was a Bolivian politician towards the end of the 19th century. The province of Eliodoro Camacho in the La Paz department bears his name in his honor.

Camacho came from the La Paz department, but grew up in Cochabamba . He founded the Liberal Party of Bolivia (" Partido Liberal "), which stood up for religious freedom, a stricter separation of church and state, state recognition of civil marriage and divorce, and strict adherence to democratic structures.

In the years 1879 to 1880 he participated as an officer of the army on saltpeter against Chile in part and later played a key role in the Constitutional Convention of 1880, in which he, together with the leader of the Conservative Party ( " Partido Constitucional "), Aniceto Arce , the foundation laid for the domestic order after the lost war.

In 1884, 1888 and 1892 he ran as a presidential candidate against the ruling Conservative Party, but lost on all three election dates. Convinced that electoral fraud was the reason for his defeat, he handed over the leadership of the Liberal Party to José Manuel Pando in 1894 , who was elected president in 1899.

Camacho died in the same year 1899 at the age of 68.