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Óscar Únzaga de la Vega (19 April 1916 – 19 April 1959) was a
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n political figure and rebel. Most significantly, he founded the
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(FSB) movement in 1937, and ran for
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in the
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, when his party became the main opposition movement to the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR). In 1959 Únzaga was one of fifty who died during an attempted coup by the FSB, with government forces reporting that he killed himself.Phil Gunson, Andrew Thompson & Greg Chamberlain, ''The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of South America'', London: Routledge, 1990, pp. 38-39 Supporters disputed the official version and stated that Únzaga had been assassinated. He is revered as a hero and martyr by some factions of well-to-do Bolivian political elites.


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