The former president Lidia Gueiler Bolivia (1979-80), the only woman who assumed the post in this Andean country, died today in La Paz at 89 years of age, "in peace and after several weeks of physical force diminished ", local media reported his grandson Eduardo Siles. Gueiler began his political career in 1946, to join the then-underground Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR), Victor Paz Estenssoro, who ruled the country on three occasions.
During the 1952 revolution, participated in the popular struggle that ended with the departure of the military government. In 1960 he was elected to parliament three years later broke the alliance with Paz Estenssoro and joined the Partido Revolucionario de Izquierda Nacional. In the coup of General Rene Barrientos in 1964, was imprisoned and tortured, and exiled after being released.
In 1978, when normalized political life in Bolivia, assumed the vice presidency of the Revolutionary Left (FRI) and supported the candidacy for President Paz Estenssoro. As a candidate for Congress for Peace, had the greatest number of votes and was elected president of Congress. On November 16, 1979 succeeded by Alberto Natusch the military coup, which had spent two weeks in office, and thus became the second president of the continent (the first was the Argentina Maria Estela, "Isabelita" Martinez Perón in 1974).
Eight months later another soldier, Gen. Luis Garcia Meza, gave a new coup and sent into exile, returning in 1983, when he was appointed ambassador to Colombia. He retired from politics in 1993. 
During the 1952 revolution, participated in the popular struggle that ended with the departure of the military government. In 1960 he was elected to parliament three years later broke the alliance with Paz Estenssoro and joined the Partido Revolucionario de Izquierda Nacional. In the coup of General Rene Barrientos in 1964, was imprisoned and tortured, and exiled after being released.
In 1978, when normalized political life in Bolivia, assumed the vice presidency of the Revolutionary Left (FRI) and supported the candidacy for President Paz Estenssoro. As a candidate for Congress for Peace, had the greatest number of votes and was elected president of Congress. On November 16, 1979 succeeded by Alberto Natusch the military coup, which had spent two weeks in office, and thus became the second president of the continent (the first was the Argentina Maria Estela, "Isabelita" Martinez Perón in 1974).
Eight months later another soldier, Gen. Luis Garcia Meza, gave a new coup and sent into exile, returning in 1983, when he was appointed ambassador to Colombia. He retired from politics in 1993.
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