{"id":"hugo-ballivian","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/hugo-ballivian","language":"en","name":"Hugo Ballivián","name_en":"Hugo Ballivián","name_ne":null,"description":"President of Bolivia (1901–1993)","headline":"President of Bolivia (1901–1993)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Hugo Ballivián Rojas was a Bolivian politician and military officer who served as the de facto 44th president of Bolivia from 1951 to 1952. A career military officer, he was Commander of the Bolivian Armed Forces when President Mamerto Urriolagoitía called upon him to take over as extra-Constitutional chief executive to prevent the swearing-in of the reform-minded President-elect, Víctor Paz Estenssoro. This was a self-coup that became popularly known as the Mamertazo. Installing himself in the Palacio Quemado, Ballivián was the oligarchy's last hope to \"turn back the hands of the clock,\" but the situation was apparently beyond repair. Despite declaring a nationwide curfew and exiling and imprisoning some opposition leaders, the demonstrations, work stoppages, and uprisings continued.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"7 June 1901","date":"1901-06-07"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309354#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"La Paz","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1491"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309354#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"15 July 1993","date":"1993-07-15"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309354#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"La Paz","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1491"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309354#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Bolivia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q750"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309354#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"politician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82955"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309354#P106"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"president of Bolivia (16 May 1951 – 11 April 1952)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q373548","start":"1951-05-16","end":"1952-04-11"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309354#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ballivi%C3%A1n","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309354"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Hugo Ballivián born?","a":"Hugo Ballivián was born on 7 June 1901 in La Paz."},{"q":"What positions has Hugo Ballivián held?","a":"Positions held by Hugo Ballivián include: president of Bolivia (1951–1952)."}],"related":[{"name":"Simón Bolívar","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/simon-bolivar"},{"name":"Antonio José de Sucre","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/antonio-jose-de-sucre"},{"name":"Andrés de Santa Cruz","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/andres-de-santa-cruz"},{"name":"Wálter Guevara","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/walter-guevara"},{"name":"Víctor Paz Estenssoro","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/victor-paz-estenssoro"},{"name":"Enrique Hertzog","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/enrique-hertzog"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/hugo-ballivian-6864748f78.jpg","width":200,"height":268,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Unknown author Unknown author","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hugo_Ballivian_Rojas.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Hugo Ballivián","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ballivi%C3%A1n","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q3309354","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3309354","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Hugo Ballivian Rojas.jpg by Unknown author Unknown author (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hugo_Ballivian_Rojas.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Hugo Ballivián, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Hugo Ballivian Rojas.jpg — Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain.","cite":"\"Hugo Ballivián\". DigiNepal. Last updated 8 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/hugo-ballivian. Retrieved 10 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-08T06:58:02Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-09","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/hugo-ballivian","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/hugo-ballivian","ne":null}}