Carlos Quintanilla

Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga ( born January 22, 1888 in Cochabamba, † June 8, 1964 ) was a Bolivian general and president.

Life

Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga was the son of Carlota Quiroga and Genaro Quintanilla. He was married to María Trigo Purple Navajas; her son was Carlos Quintanilla Navajas (* 1935 in Tarija, † 2009). He studied at the Colegio Militar and participated in a training course in the German Reich. He had command of the troops in the Chaco War.

Under the government of Germán Busch Becerra, he was commander of the armed forces of Bolivia and solved this after his suicide on as president. Since the El corralito de Villa Montes on November 27, 1934, when Daniel Salamanca Urey wanted to replace the General Staff and was replaced at the behest of Chief of Staff Enrique Penaranda del Castillo by the Vice President José Luis Tejada Sorzano, Enrique Penaranda del Castillo pulled the strings of power in Bolivia. That Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga became president and not, as provided in the Constitution, the chairman of the Senate Enrique Baldivieso Aparicio, one of the artifices, was aimed at ensuring that Enrique Penaranda del Castillo was elected president. In addition, he sent Bernardino Bilbao Rioja, a potential opponent, into exile and decreed a general election for March 3 1940.

Under the Bush Administration, a law was passed that the foreign transnational mining companies would have expropriated in Bolivia. Carlos Quintanilla Quiroga decreed on 1 October 1939 that this expropriation was temporarily postponed.

From 1940 to 1941 he was ambassador to Pius XII.

Cabinet

• Interior Minister: Vicente Leyton was replaced by his wife's brother, Bernardo Trigo Navajas.
• Education Minister: Víctor Cabrera Lozada
• A little later he was detached as Ministro de Agricultura Carlos Salinas Aramayo by Jorge Mercado Rosales.