The Workers' Vanguard (

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: ''Vanguardia Obrera''; VO) was a small

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in Bolivia. The Workers' Vanguard was established by a dissident fraction which broke away from the

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in 1978. It was led by Filemón Escóbar Escóbar and

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. The VO took part in elections in 1979 and presented as its presidential candidate Ricardo Catoira Marín and Filemón Escobar as vice-presidential candidate. In 1980 the VO took part in an electoral coalition

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backing

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 1952 ...

. In 1984, the Workers' Vanguard Party merged with the Revolutionary Workers' Party-Struggle to form the new

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.Political parties of the world. Longman, 1988. p. 71.

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