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René Barrientos

1919 - 1969

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René Barrientos Ortuño (30 May 1919 – 27 April 1969) was a Bolivian military officer and politician who served as the 47th president of Bolivia twice nonconsecutively from 1964 to 1966 and from 1966 to 1969. During much of his first term, he shared power as co-president with Alfredo Ovando from 1965 to 1966 and prior to that served as the 30th vice president of Bolivia in 1964.General Barrientos came to power after the 1964 Bolivian coup d'état which overthrew the government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Barrientos has received more than 260,394 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). René Barrientos is the 5,129th most popular politician (up from 5,742nd in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Bolivia (up from 3rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Bolivian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, René Barrientos ranks 5,129 out of 15,577Before him are Shigechiyo Izumi, Ri Chun-hee, Dino Grandi, Bahadur Shah I, Bermudo II of León, and Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi. After him are Cus D'Amato, Louis I, Prince of Monaco, Emperor Fushimi, Pierre Mauroy, Ivan Maisky, and Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, René Barrientos ranks 61Before him are Ian Smith, Mohamed Boudiaf, Glafcos Clerides, Gillo Pontecorvo, Mieczysław Weinberg, and Ashraf Pahlavi. After him are Ernst Barkmann, Bob Paisley, Valentino Mazzola, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Kiichi Miyazawa, and Peter Abrahams. Among people deceased in 1969, René Barrientos ranks 50Before him are Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Vito Genovese, Li Zongren, Prince Konrad of Bavaria, Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, and Enrique Ballestrero. After him are Erika Mann, Joseph Kosma, Leo McCarey, Ernest Ansermet, Dragiša Cvetković, and Wilhelm Backhaus.

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In Bolivia

Among people born in Bolivia, René Barrientos ranks 2 out of 78Before him are Evo Morales (1959). After him are Hugo Banzer (1926), Luis Arce (1963), Mario Terán (1942), Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (1930), Luis García Meza (1929), Lidia Gueiler Tejada (1921), Jeanine Áñez (1967), Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1907), Andrés de Santa Cruz (1792), and Túpac Katari (1750).

Among POLITICIANS In Bolivia

Among politicians born in Bolivia, René Barrientos ranks 2Before him are Evo Morales (1959). After him are Hugo Banzer (1926), Luis Arce (1963), Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (1930), Luis García Meza (1929), Lidia Gueiler Tejada (1921), Jeanine Áñez (1967), Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1907), Andrés de Santa Cruz (1792), Hernán Siles Zuazo (1914), and Juan José Torres (1920).