The Popular Movement for National Liberation (

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: ''Movimiento Popular de Liberación Nacional'', MPLN) was a

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. In 1972,

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split from the Revolutionary Left Movement and founded the Popular Movement for National Liberation. In 1978 the political party took out a pamphlet where they explain its origin, where they talk about its influence from the

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, the Foquismo, and the social and political crisis lived in

..In 1978, 1979, and 1980 the MPLN took part in an electoral coalition

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Hernán Siles Zuazo Hernán Siles Zuazo (21 March 1914 – 6 August 1996) was a Bolivian politician who served as the 46th president of Bolivia twice nonconsecutively from 1956 to 1960 and from 1982 to 1985. He also briefly served as interim president in April 195 ...

. In 1983, the Popular Movement for National Liberation merged with the

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. The Socialist Party-One presented Ramiro Velasco Romero as its presidential candidate in 1985 and 1993. Elections in the Americas : a data handbook / ed. by Dieter Nohlen, Vol. 2. xford .a. Oxford Univ. Press, 2005. P.152.

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