Ruler · 1929 – 2018

Luis García Meza

Lived 1929 – 2018; politician, military officer. President of Bolivia (Bolivia), 1980 – 1981.

Wikidata's English label: Luis García Meza 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: 1929 – 2018; 89 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 1; Bolivia
Left it: left office alive; read off the dates alone

President of Bolivia

Bolivia · the 66th of 83 dated reigns · 1825 – 2025

62 before

Wálter Guevara1979

Alberto Natusch1979

Lidia Gueiler1979 – 1980

Luis García Meza1980 – 1981

Waldo Bernal Pereira1981

Óscar Pammo Rodríguez1981

Celso Torrelio1981 – 1982

14 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 1980 – 1981 · 1 year · came to it aged 51

Left it: left office aliveread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1981; they died in 2018

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