Daniel Salamanca Urey

Daniel Domingo Salamanca Urey (8 July 1869 – 17 July 1935) was a Bolivian lawyer and politician who served as the 33rd president of Bolivia from 1931 to 1934.

He was overthrown in a coup d'état on 27 November 1934, during the country's disastrous Chaco War with Paraguay. Bolivian historians have referred to him as "El Hombre Símbolo" (the symbolic man), as a president who carefully cultivated an appearance of integrity and nationalism.

Political career Born in Cochabamba, Salamanca studied law at the Higher University of San Simón, before being elected to Bolivia's Chamber of Deputies in 1899 for the Liberal Party. Two years later, President José Manuel Pando appointed him Finance Minister. Salamanca was a prominent opposition leader in 1907 and roundly attacked the Pinilla-Soler Treaty that had divided the Chaco region between Bolivia and Paraguay. His daughters Leonor and Raquel founded the Sociedad Patriótica de Señoras during the Chaco War.

Salamanca came from a wealthy, landed family from Cochabamba. At the time of expropriation in 1941, the Salamanca family owned the Chapisirca Lakes; Daniel Salamanca had inherited the lakes, the adjoining Chapisirca ranch, and the Montesillo hacienda from his father Jorge in 1904. From his mother Manuela, he inherited shares in the Colón beer factory, and rights to the Marquina Lakes in 1928. Under the 1906 Bolivian water laws, Salamanca inherited these water sources as accessories to his landed properties.