Lidia gueiler tejada biography of michael

Few years later Lidia lived in exile in Paris and with the return of democracy, in late , she was appointed ambassador in Colombia and in was Senator of Cochabamba. As a parliamentarian Gueiler was appointed president of the Human Rights Commission of the Senate, president of the Subcommittee of Social Policy, Health and Rural Affairs.

Lidia Gueiler

Lidia Gueiler Tejada (28 August – 9 May ) was a Bolivian politician. She was the 56th president of Bolivia from to She was Bolivia's first female Head of State, and the second female head of state in a republic in the history of the Americas.

Gueiler was born in Cochabamba, to Moisés Gueiler Grunewelt, an immigrant from Germany and a Bolivian mother, Raquel Tejada Albornoz.[1] She received a BA degree from Instituto Americano in Cochabamba.[2] In the s, she joined the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR).

In , Gueiler again ran for Congress and was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia.

Lidia gueiler tejada biography of michael Lidia Gueiler Tejada (28 August – 9 May ) was a Bolivian politician who served as the 56th president of Bolivia on an interim basis from to She was Bolivia's first female Head of State, and the second female head of state in a republic in the history of the Americas (the first was Isabel Perón in Argentina between and ).

She also became the vice-president of the Revolutionary Left Front.[3]

Gueiler became interimPresident of Bolivia when the election results were annulled.

She was the cousin of American actress Raquel Welch and former President Luis García Meza, who removed her from power in [4][5]

On 9 May , Gueiler died in La Paz from a long illness.

She was 89 years old.[6][4]

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  1. ↑Crespo, Alfonso (). Lydia - "Lydia Gueiler Tejada, hija legítima de Moisés Gueiler, nacido en Alemania, y de doña Raquel Tejada Albornoz, dama cochabambina". ISBN&#;.

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  2. ↑Kinnear, Karen (). Women in Developing Countries: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO.

    Biography of michael jackson Gueiler Tejada, Lidia (–)Lidia Gueiler Tejada (b. ), president of Bolivia (16 November –17 July ). Born in Cochabamba, Gueiler, a graduate of the American Institute in La Paz, was trained as an accountant.

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  3. ↑Crespo Rodas, Alfonso. Lydia: una mujer en la historia. La Paz: Plural Ed, p.
  4. ↑ "Adiós a la expresidenta".

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  5. ↑"Lidia Gueiler, Bolivian president between coups, dies at 89". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 15 January
  6. ↑Lidia Gueiler Tejada: Politician who became only the West's second female president

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