1969 Bolivian coup d'état

1969 Bolivian coup d'état (also known as the 26 September Revolution by supporters) was a military coup carried out by the Bolivian commander Alfredo Ovando Candía that deposed President Luís Adolfo Siles Salinas, former vice-president of René Barrientos who had taken office after his death. Ovando seized power in the name of a "nationalist and revolutionary" program formulated in the Revolutionary Mandate of the Armed Forces. Ovando's coup belonged to a trend of military regimes of nationalist and progressive orientation in Latin America, represented by Juan Velasco Alvarado and Omar Torrijos Herrera.