List of Bolivian Ambassadors to the United States

The building of the embassy

This is a list of the Bolivian ambassadors to the United States . The Bolivian Embassy is located at 3014 Massachusetts Ave. NW in Washington, DC

Appointed	Accredited	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited at
1889		Juan Francisco Velarde Vaca		Severo Fernandez Alonso Caballero	William McKinley
July 27, 1897		Luís Paz Arce	Opening of the legation, Luís Paz Arce (born August 19, 1854 in Tarija , † 1928 in Sucre ) son of Genoveva Arce and Paulino Paz 24th President of the Supreme Court, author of Historia General del Alto Perú, hoy Bolivia
Oct 22, 1900		Fernando Eloy Guachalla		José Manuel Pando Solares
1901		Alberto Gutiérrez	Chargé d'affaires
May 1904		Jorge E. Zalles			Theodore Roosevelt
May 27, 1904		Ignacio Calderón
July 15, 1920		Alberto Cortadellas	Chargé d'affaires	Bautista Saavedra Mallea	Woodrow Wilson
July 14, 1921		Adolfo Ballivián			Warren G. Harding
Oct 8, 1923		Ricardo Jaimes Freyre			Calvin Coolidge
Feb 10, 1928		Eduardo Diez de Medina		Hernando Siles Reyes	Calvin Coolidge
17 Sep 1931		Luis Oruro Abelli		Daniel Salamanca Urey	Herbert C. Hoover
Aug 26, 1932		Enrique S. de Lozada	Chargé d'affaires
Dec 6, 1932		Enrique Finot
21 Sep 1936	Oct 6, 1936	Luis Fernando Guachalla		José David Toro Ruilova	Franklin D. Roosevelt
March 31, 1942			Upgrading the legation to an embassy	Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo
March 24, 1942	March 31, 1942
Jan. 20, 1944	June 23, 1944	Break in diplomatic relations	Resumption of diplomatic relations	Gualberto Villarroel López
June 27, 1944		Carlos Dorado Chopitea	Chargé d'affaires
Nov 13, 1944	Dec 21, 1944	Victor Andrade
July 21, 1946	Aug 12, 1946	Break in diplomatic relations	Resumption of diplomatic relations		Harry S. Truman
Aug 12, 1946		Raul Diez de Medina	Chargé d'affaires	Nestor Guillen Olmos
5th Sep 1946	13 Sep 1946	Ricardo Marínez Vargas		Tomás Monje Gutiérrez
July 29, 1952	Aug 11, 1952	Victor Andrade		Víctor Paz Estenssoro
Oct 9, 1958	Oct. 31, 1958	Manuel Barrau Peláez		Hernán Siles Zuazo	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jan 15, 1960	Feb 15, 1960	Victor Andrade		Hernán Siles Zuazo
Nov 19, 1962		Emilio Sarmiento	Chargé d'affaires	Víctor Paz Estenssoro	John F. Kennedy
March 27, 1963	Apr 24, 1963	Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada y Sánchez Bustamante	(* July 1, 1930 in the province of Murillo )		Lyndon B. Johnson
Apr 22, 1965	May 5, 1965	Julio Sanjinés Goitia		René Barrientos Ortuño
Jan. 13, 1971	Feb 8, 1971	Antonio Sánchez de Lozada		Juan Torres Gonzáles	Richard Nixon
Oct 14, 1971	Oct 21, 1971	Edmundo Valencia Ibáñez	general	Hugo Banzer Suarez
July 18, 1974		Juan José Loria	Chargé d'affaires		Gerald Ford
Jan. 17, 1975	Jan. 29, 1975	Roberto Capriles Gutiérrez
Jan. 31, 1976		Luis Arnal	Chargé d'affaires
March 31, 1976	May 21, 1976	Alberto Crespo Gutiérrez	(* October 18, 1906)
Dec. 1, 1977		Juan L. Cariaga	Chargé d'affaires		Jimmy Carter
March 20, 1978	Apr 7, 1978	Carlos Iturralde Ballivián	Foreign minister
Feb. 20, 1979	March 30, 1979	Roberto Arce Alvarez	(* February 24, 1906 in Sucre)	David Padilla Arancibia
Jan. 19, 1982	Feb. 5, 1982	Julio Sanjinés Goitia	(* 1906)	Celso Torrelio Villa	Ronald Reagan
Oct 21, 1982		Luis Minaya Montano	(* 1946 in Capinota ) Chargé	Hernán Siles Zuazo
Feb 23, 1983	Apr 7, 1983	Mariano Baptista Gumucio		Hernán Siles Zuazo
Feb. 28, 1986	March 11, 1986	Fernando Illanes de la Riva	1992 presidente de la CEPB	Víctor Paz Estenssoro
March 9, 1988	March 22, 1988	Carlos Delius Evers
Nov. 17, 1989	Dec 20, 1989	Jorge Crespo Velasco	(Born October 29, 1938 in La Paz ) 1961: Licenciado en Administración Pública y Privada of the University System of Maryland	Jaime Paz Zamora	George HW Bush
Nov 15, 1993	Dec 9, 1993	Andres Petricevic Raznatovic		Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada	Bill Clinton
Nov 13, 1995	Feb 6, 1996	Fernando Alvaro Cossio
Dec 12, 1997	March 16, 1998	Marcelo Pérez Monasterios	Presidente de la Confederación Nacional de Empresarios de Bolivia	Hugo Banzer Suarez
Feb 3, 2000	June 14, 2000	Marlene Fernandez del Granado
Jan. 17, 2003	Feb. 26, 2003	Jaime Aparicio Otero		Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada	George W. Bush
8 Sep 2006	Sep 12 2006	Mario Gustavo Guzmán Saldaña		Evo Morales
2009		Erika Ángela Dueñas Loayza	Chargé d'affaires		Barack Obama
Apr 1, 2011		Freddy Bersatti Tudela	(Born May 17, 1951 in Puerto Cavinas in Beni Department ) Chargé General

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Juan Francisco Velarde Vaca.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Fernando Eloy Guachalla.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Alberto Gutierrez ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Sánchez de Lozada y Sánchez Bustamante
5. ↑ Freddy Bersatti Tudela ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Bolivian ambassador to the United States ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.