Ruler · 1921 – 2011

Lidia Gueiler

Lived 1921 – 2011; politician, diplomat, writer. President of Bolivia (Bolivia), 1979 – 1980.

Wikidata's English label: Lidia Gueiler Tejada.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1921 – 2011; 90 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 1; Bolivia
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

President of Bolivia

Bolivia · the 65th of 83 dated reigns · 1825 – 2025

61 before

David Padilla1978 – 1979

Wálter Guevara1979

Alberto Natusch1979

Lidia Gueiler1979 – 1980

Luis García Meza1980 – 1981

Waldo Bernal Pereira1981

Óscar Pammo Rodríguez1981

15 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadstill in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1979 – 1980 · 1 year · came to it aged 58

Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

Before the winners could take their parliamentary seats, however, Gueiler herself was overthrown by the Bolivian Armed Forces in coup by her cousin, General Luis García Meza Tejada in 1980.

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