Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement

The Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario de Izquierda, MNRI) was a centre-left political party in Bolivia.

The Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement was founded by Hernán Siles Zuazo, a leader leftist sector of the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement. He had earlier been Vice-President (1951), had led a revolution (1952) and had been President (1956–1960); he had been in exile in 1946–1951 and 1964–1978. In 1971, a leader of MNR Víctor Paz Estenssoro supported the far-Right coup triggered by Colonel Hugo Banzer Suárez, and the MNR became officially a member of the regime, along with the party's traditional enemy, the Bolivian Socialist Falange (FSB). Víctor Paz Estenssoro's entry into the pro-Hugo Banzer Popular Nationalist Front with the FSB provoked Hernán Siles Zuazo's formal exit from the party, to form the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement of the Left.

The MNRI sought the establishment of a government "truly representative of workers and peasants"; an end to "fratricidal struggles"; the suppression of the drug trade, and the renegotiation of foreign debt.

The Leftwing Revolutionary Nationalist Movement was the leading force in the Democratic and Popular Union, formed in April 1978 and including the Revolutionary Left Movement and the Communist Party of Bolivia (PCB), and in mid-1979. In the presidential elections of 1978 Hernán Siles Zuazo, as the UDP candidate, came second with 25.00%, and of 1979 and 1980 he came first with 35.97 and 38.74 per cent, and only the 1980 military coup prevented his inauguration as President. He returned from exile (in Peru) on 8 October 1982, and two days later was confirmed as President by the reconvened Congress.

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