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Alfredo Ovando Candía
Alfredo Ovando Candía (6 April 1918 – 24 January 1982) was the Commander of the Bolivian Air Forces and ambassador who served as the 48th president of Bolivia twice nonconsecutively, first as co-president with René Barrientos from 1965 to 1966 and then as de facto president from 1969 to 1970. Early years Ovando was born in Cobija from an upper-middle-class family of immigrants parents from Extremadura, Spain and Piedmont, Italy. He started his long military career in the early 1930s, when he served in the Chaco War against Paraguay. Originally rather apolitical, he was chosen (among others) to lead the reconstituted Armed Forces of Bolivia in the aftermath of the 1952 Revolution that installed in power the reformist Revolutionary Nationalist Movement party, better known as the MNR. Ovando lived through the relative deprivation, reduced budgets, and loss of prestige of the defeated Bolivian army during the early years of MNR rule. By the early 1960s, President Víctor P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovando
Ovando is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alfredo Ovando Candía (1918–1982), Bolivian general, president and dictator *Clementina Díaz y de Ovando (1916–2012), Mexican writer and researcher *Diego de Cáceres y Ovando, Spanish nobleman *Diego Fernández de Ovando, Spanish military and nobleman *Diego Fernández de Cáceres y Ovando (died after 1487), Spanish military and nobleman *Eduardo Ovando Martínez (born 1955), Mexican politician *Fernando Alfón de Ovando, Spanish military and nobleman *Fernando Fernández de Ovando, Spanish diplomat and nobleman *Francisco José de Ovando, 1st Marquis of Brindisi (c. 1693–1755), Spanish soldier and governor of Chile *Hernán Pérez de Ovando, Spanish military man and nobleman *Janette Ovando (born 1977), Mexican politician *Javier Ovando (born c. 1977), Honduran immigrant framed by the LAPD *José Luis Ovando Patrón (born 1970), Mexican politician *Marcos Ramírez de Prado y Ovando (1592–1667), Spanish Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
