Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
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Revolutionary Nationalist Movement
Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario |
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| President | Guillermo Bedregal Gutiérrez |
| Founder | Víctor Paz Estenssoro |
| Founded | June 7, 1942 |
| Headquarters | La Paz, Bolivia |
| Ideology |
Nationalism Populism |
| Political position | Centre |
| National affiliation | PPB-CN |
| Continental affiliation | COPPPAL |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Pink |
| Chamber of Deputies |
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The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario 
listen , MNR) is a Bolivian political party the leading force behind the Bolivian National Revolution which influenced much of the country's history since 1941.
The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement was begun in 1941 by future presidents Víctor Paz Estenssoro and Hernán Siles Zuazo. It soon attracted some of the brightest members of the Bolivian intelligentsia. Among the party's most prominent supporters are historic figures such as Humberto Guzmán Fricke, Juan Lechín, Carlos Montenegro, Walter Guevara Arze, Javier del Granado, Augusto Céspedes, Lydia Gueiler, Guillermo Bedregal, and Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, a number of whom later became presidents of Bolivia.
At the time of its establishment it was a leftist/reformist party, along the lines of similar Latin American parties such as the Dominican Revolutionary Party, Democratic Action in Venezuela, and the Peruvian Aprista Party. The MNR first came to power in 1943, as supporters of the reformist military regime of Gualberto Villarroel. It was at the time tainted by the alleged pro-fascist sympathies of various of its leaders, as the United States (then at war with the Axis) demanded that MNR members be removed from the Villarroel government in exchange for official diplomatic recognition.
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