Enrique Peñaranda

President of Bolivia

15 November 1892 Sorata, La Paz, Bolivia

22 December 1969 (aged 77) Madrid, Spain

15 April 1940 – 20 December 1943

Bolivian general and 38th President of Bolivia In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Peñaranda and the second or maternal family name is del Castillo. Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo (15 November 1892 – 22 December 1969) was a Bolivian general who served as the 38th president of Bolivia from 1940 until his overthrow in 1943. He previously served as commander-in-chief of the country's armed forces during the second half of the Chaco War (1932–1935). Once elected in 1940, Peñarada oversaw the return of the traditional conservative policies Bolivia had seen prior to the Chaco War which had previously been almost completely marginalized by the military socialist administrations of David Toro and Germán Busch. Under his administration, Bolivia entered World War II on the Allied side pledging its tin resources for the war effort. While popular abroad, discontent continued amongst the Bolivian populace and in late 1943 he was overthrown in coup d'état which briefly attempted to reassert Toro and Busch-era leftist policies.