Carlos Montenegro

Carlos Montenegro
Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Colonization
In office 20 December 1943 – 11 February 1944
President	Gualberto Villarroel
Preceded by	Julio Céspedes Añez
Succeeded by	Rafael Otazo
Personal details
Born	Carlos Montenegro Quiroga (1903-12-26)26 December 1903 Cochabamba, Bolivia
Died	10 March 1953(1953-03-10) (aged 49) New York City, New York, U.S.
Cause of death	Cardiac arrest
Political party	Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (1941–1953)
Other political affiliations	Nationalist (1927–1936) United Socialist (1936–1941)
Spouses	María Quiroga Vargas ​ ​ (m. 1927; div. 1931)​ Yolanda Céspedes ​ (m. 1934)​
Relations	Augusto Céspedes (brother-in-law)
Children	Mario Martha Waskar
Parent(s)	Rodolfo Montenegro Raquel Quiroga
Alma mater	Higher University of San Simón

Carlos Montenegro Quiroga (26 December 1903 – 10 March 1953) was a Bolivian lawyer, journalist, politician, and writer who served as minister of agriculture from 1943 to 1944. He was the principal political theorist of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, co-founding the party newspaper La Calle which laid the ideological bases of the party. His most famous work, Nacionalismo y coloniaje (1943), an essay on the influence of journalism in the history of Bolivia, is considered to be one of the most influential works in Bolivian historiography.