José Miguel García Lanza (17??–1828; also José Miguel Lanza) was a hero of the
Bolivia
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n wars of independence. Historian William Lofstron describes him as a "guerrilla chieftain" who, after many years of warfare against
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forces, finally "occupied his native
La Paz
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in late January 1825,"
[Lofstrom 188] before the arrival of the liberating general
Marshall Sucre.
In power, Lanza was less successful. Sucre "complain
dbitterly" to his fellow liberator
Simón Bolívar
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that "Lanza's administration would result in the utter ruin of departmental finances" because of "Lanza's apparent inability to control the greed and corruption that surrounded him."
Elected to the national Assembly in 1825, Lanza left La Paz for
Potosí
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.
He died in 1828.
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1828 deaths
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