Augusto Céspedes
Augusto Céspedes | |
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Augusto Céspedes with a Capuchin monkey | |
Secretary-General of the Junta | |
In office 20 December 1943 – 11 February 1944 | |
President | Gualberto Villarroel |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Wálter Guevara |
Deputy of the National Convention | |
In office 23 May 1938 – 24 April 1939 | |
Constituency | Cochabamba |
Personal details | |
Born | Augusto Céspedes Patzi (1903-02-06)6 February 1903 Cochabamba, Bolivia |
Died | 11 May 1997(1997-05-11) (aged 94) La Paz, Bolivia |
Political party | Revolutionary Nationalist Movement |
Spouse | Matilde Garvía |
Parent(s) | Pablo Céspedes Adriana Patzi Iturri |
Alma mater | Higher University of San Andrés |
Augusto Céspedes Patzi (6 February 1904, Cochabamba – 9 May 1997, La Paz) was a Bolivian writer, politician, diplomat, and journalist. He was the brother-in-law of writer Carlos Montenegro.
Career
Céspedes studied law and received his degree in La Paz.
In 1927, he founded the Nationalist Party. He was a leader in the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR).
He worked as a journalist on the front in the Chaco War, writing for the newspaper El Universal. His reports were compiled and published in the book Crónicas heroicas de una guerra estúpida, published in 1975. He also founded the MNR daily La Calle, directed the newspaper La Nación in La Paz and had an important role in Bolivian literature; he wrote various biographies of presidents such as Daniel Salamanca, Germán Busch Becerra, and Gualberto Villarroel. He also wrote stories and novels.
He was a noted politician, serving as a deputy in Bolivian legislatures (three times: 1938, 1944, and 1956), and in diplomatic offices. He served as Bolivia's Ambassador to Paraguay in 1945, and to Italy in 1953, and distinguished himself as Ambassador to UNESCO.
Works
- 1936: Sangre de Mestizos
- 1946: Metal del diablo
- 1956: El dictador suicida
- 1966: El presidente colgado
- 1968: Trópico enamorado
- 1975: Crónicas heroicas de una guerra estúpida
Awards
- 1957: National Literature Prize
External links
- "Augusto Céspedes o la pasión de narrar" Archived 25 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine por Jaime Iturri Salmón.
- Biografía de Céspedes
- Polémica entre Jorge Abelardo Ramos, Augusto Céspedes, Guillermo Lora y Antezana E.
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- 1947: Paz Estenssoro/Lechín
- 1951: Paz Estenssoro/Siles Zuazo
- 1956: Siles Zuazo/Chávez Ortiz
- 1960: Paz Estenssoro/Lechín
- 1964: Paz Estenssoro/Barrientos
- 1966: Andrade Uzquiano/Otazo
- 1978: Paz Estenssoro/Guevara
- 1979: Paz Estenssoro/Ossio
- 1980: Paz Estenssoro/Chávez Ortiz
- 1985: Paz Estenssoro/Garret
- 1989: Sánchez de Lozada/Guevara
- 1993: Sánchez de Lozada/Cárdenas
- 1997: Durán/Fernández
- 2002: Sánchez de Lozada/Mesa
- 2005: Nagatani/Bedregal
- 2019: Lema/Untoja
- Paz Estenssoro
- Sánchez de Lozada
- Campero
- Quevedo
- Bedregal
- Anaya
- Morón
- Torres
- Siles
- Andrade Uzquiano
- Bedregal
- Chávez Ortiz
- Céspedes
- del Granado
- Gueiler
- Guevara
- Lechín
- Monroy Block
- Montenegro
- Morón
- Otero Calderón
- Paz Estenssoro
- Sánchez de Lozada
- Siles Zuazo
- Alliance of Nationalist Left Forces of the MNR
- Authentic Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
- Authentic Revolutionary
- Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
- Movement of the National Left
- Revolutionary Left Movement
- Revolutionary Nationalist Movement of the People
- Revolutionary Nationalist Movement–Julio
- Revolutionary Party of the Nationalist Left
- United Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
- United Socialist Party
- Independent Socialist Party
- 1943 coup d'état
- Bolivian National Revolution
- 1964 coup d'état
- Gas conflict