María Eugenia del Valle de Siles

María Eugenia del Valle de Siles (1928 – 17 January 1994) was a Chilean-Bolivian historian, researcher, and university professor.

Biography María Eugenia del Valle was born in Santiago in 1928. She earned a licentiate as a historian from the University of Chile. With the aid of a scholarship, she completed her doctoral studies at the Central University of Madrid. In 1957, she married the Bolivian essayist and diplomat , whom she met in Madrid, and they moved to Bolivia in the mid-1960s. She taught History of America and Universal History at the University of Valparaíso, and in 1966 she became Professor of History of America and Modern Universal History at the Higher University of San Andrés in La Paz. and the mother of Juan Ignacio Siles del Valle, Foreign Minister of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005.

María Eugenia del Valle died in La Paz, where she had established her residence, on 17 January 1994. 1993: Order of the Condor of the Andes from the government of Bolivia