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Events in the year 1939 in Bolivia.

Incumbents

Events

  • 24 April – President Germán Busch dismisses the assembly and declares dictatorial rule.[3]
  • 23 August – President Germán Busch commits suicide by gunshot.[1] The armed forces appoints the commander-in-chief of the army General Carlos Quintanilla interim president.[4]
  • 6 October – General elections are called for 10 March 1940.[5]
  • 4 December – The office of vice president is abolished by decree in order to circumvent claims of constitutional succession by former vice president Enrique Baldivieso.[2]

Births

  • 15 April – Jaime Paz Zamora, 32nd Vice President of Bolivia, 60th President of Bolivia

Deaths

References

  1. ^ a b Steinberg, S. (2016). The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1952. Springer. p. 806. ISBN 9780230270817.
  2. ^ a b "Bolivia: Decreto Ley de 4 de diciembre de 1939". www.lexivox.org. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  3. ^ TIMES, Special Cable to THE NEW YORK (25 April 1939). "TOTALITARIAN RULE DECREED IN BOLIVIA BY PRESIDENT, 35; Busch Assumes Dictatorial Powers, Doing Away With Congress and Basic Law (Published 1939)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Conmoción y duda: ¿fue la muerte de Germán Busch un suicidio?". www.paginasiete.bo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 7 October 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Bolivia: Decreto Ley de 17 de noviembre de 1939". www.lexivox.org. Retrieved 10 March 2021.