Óscar Únzaga

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Family name hatnote Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Template:Falangism sidebar Óscar Únzaga de la Vega (19 April 1916 – 19 April 1959) was a Bolivian political figure and rebel. Most significantly, he founded the Bolivian Socialist Falange (FSB) movement in 1937, and ran for President in the 1956 elections, when his party became the main opposition movement to the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR).

In 1959 Únzaga was one of fifty who died during an attempted coup by the FSB, with government forces reporting that he killed himself.[1] Supporters disputed the official version and stated that Únzaga had been assassinated. He is revered as a hero and martyr by some factions of well-to-do Bolivian political elites.

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  1. Phil Gunson, Andrew Thompson & Greg Chamberlain, The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of South America, London: Routledge, 1990, pp. 38-39

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Party political offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check General Secretary of the Bolivian Socialist Falange
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Leader of the Bolivian Socialist Falange
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Bolivian Socialist Falange nominee
for President of Bolivia

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