Showing posts with label Alberto Natusch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alberto Natusch. Show all posts

Saturday, February 13, 2016

President for Sixteen Days

After retiring and becoming irrelevant…

Don: I want to make a biopic about a relative.

Sancho: A quest for alternative relevancy then? Is this a famous relative?

Presidente durante 16 dias
Don: He was briefly famous. 66th Presidente de Bolivia.

Sancho: How long for?

Don: Sixteen days. He led a coup, but the workers went on strike and he had to give it up.

Sancho: President for Sixteen Days. Sounds a good story, even if it ended in tears.

Don: Everyman's dream. Once in a lifetime experience.
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Voice-over

Bolivia has seen many short-term presidencies in its history of 80 leaders since Simon Bolivar in 1825. Alberto's tenure was perhaps one of the shortest.
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