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Lidia Gueiler was born on 28 August, 1921 in Cochabamba, Bolivia, is a President of Bolivia from 1979 to 1980. Discover Lidia Gueiler's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

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Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 28 August 1921
Birthday 28 August
Birthplace Cochabamba, Bolivia
Date of death 9 May, 2011
Died Place La Paz, Bolivia
Nationality Bolivia

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Who Is Lidia Gueiler's Husband?

Her husband is Mareiriam Pérez Ramírez Edwin Möller Pacieri

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Parents Moisés Gueiler Raquel Tejada
Husband Mareiriam Pérez Ramírez Edwin Möller Pacieri
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Children María Teresa

Lidia Gueiler Net Worth

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1921

Lidia Gueiler Tejada (28 August 1921 – 9 May 2011) was a Bolivian politician who served as the 56th president of Bolivia on an interim basis from 1979 to 1980.

1940

In the 1940s, she joined the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR).

1952

When that party came to power as a result of the 1952 National Revolution, Gueiler became a member of the Congress of Bolivia, serving in that capacity from 1956 until 1964.

1960

In addition, she authored two books, publishing La mujer y la revolución ("The woman and the revolution") in 1960 and her autobiography, Mi pasión de lideresa ("My passion as a leader"), in 2000.

1964

In 1964, she went into exile abroad after the MNR was toppled from power by generals Barrientos and Ovando.

She spent the next fifteen years out of the country, and joined Juan Lechín's Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left (PRIN).

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

1974

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 1974 and 1976).

She was the cousin of American actress Raquel Welch.

Gueiler was born in Cochabamba, to Moisés Gueiler Grunewelt, an immigrant from Germany and a Bolivian mother, Raquel Tejada Albornoz.

She received a BA degree from Instituto Americano in Cochabamba.

1979

Upon returning to Bolivia in 1979, Gueiler again ran for Congress and was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies of Bolivia (the lower house of the Bolivian Congress) as part of the MNR alliance of former president Víctor Paz Estenssoro.

As no presidential candidate in the 1979 elections had received the necessary 50% of the vote, it fell to Congress to decide who should be president.

Surprisingly, no agreement could be reached, no matter how many votes were taken.

An alternative was offered in the form of the President of the Senate of Bolivia, Dr. Wálter Guevara, who was named temporary Bolivian President in August 1979 pending the calling of new elections in 1980.

Guevara was shortly afterwards overthrown in a military coup led by General Alberto Natusch.

The population resisted, however, led by a nationwide labor strike called by the powerful Central Obrera Boliviana ("COB") of Juan Lechín.

In the end, Natusch was able to occupy the Palacio Quemado for only sixteen days, after which he was forced to give up power.

The only face-saving concession he extracted from Congress was the promise that Guevara not be allowed to resume his duties as president.

The above condition was accepted and a new provisional president was found in Lidia Gueiler, then leader of the lower congressional house.

She is the recipient of several awards, including the Order of the Condor of the Andes Grand Cross and the 1979 United Nations Woman of the Year award.

1980

As interim President, Gueiler was entrusted with the task of conducting new elections, which were held on 29 June 1980.

Before the winners could take their parliamentary seats, however, Gueiler herself was overthrown in a bloody right-wing military coup by her cousin, General Luis García Meza Tejada.

1982

Gueiler then left the country, and lived in France until the fall of the dictatorship in 1982.

1989

Later, she served her country mostly in the diplomatic sphere, having been appointed Bolivia's ambassador to first Colombia, then West Germany, and finally—after joining Jaime Paz's "Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria"—to Venezuela (1989).

1990

She retired from public life in the mid-1990s.

Gueiler was involved in various Bolivian feminist organizations throughout her life.

She opposed the United States-backed war on drugs in Latin America, particularly the so-called Plan Colombia.

2005

She supported the candidacy of Evo Morales in the 2005 election.

2009

In June 2009, Gueiler accepted the role of honorary president of the Human Rights Foundation in Bolivia.

2011

On 9 May 2011, Gueiler died in La Paz following a long illness.

She was 89 years old.