1. Carlos Montenegro Quiroga was a Bolivian lawyer, journalist, politician, and writer who served as minister of agriculture from 1943 to 1944.
10 Facts About Carlos Montenegro
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Carlos Montenegro was the principal political theorist of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, co-founding the party newspaper La Calle which laid the ideological bases of the party.
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Carlos Montenegro was born on 26 December 1903 in Cochabamba to Rodolfo Montenegro Guzman and Raquel Quiroga.
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At age eighteen, Carlos Montenegro entered the field of journalism, working for the avant-garde weekly magazine Arte y Trabajo.
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Carlos Montenegro was twenty-nine years old when in 1932, the Chaco War erupted.
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In 1936, together with Augusto Cespedes and Armando Arce, Carlos Montenegro founded the left-wing morning newspaper La Calle.
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The publication was the party press of the United Socialist Party, of which Carlos Montenegro was the secretary-general.
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Carlos Montenegro's increasing demands for a higher degree of socialism, including policies that Toro could not immediately implement due to political circumstances, caused the president to fear that, if left unsatisfied, the man who masterminded the overthrow of Tejada Sorzano might do the same to him.
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Carlos Montenegro was still in Argentina when, in 1939, he received the news that Busch had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Carlos Montenegro was appointed ambassador to Chile by President Victor Paz Estenssoro but never came to take office.