What is David Padilla?
{{Infobox officeholder | name=David Padilla | image= | order=64th [[President of Bolivia]] | vicepresident= | term_start=24 November 1978 | term_end=8 August 1979 | predecessor=[[Juan Pereda]] | successor=[[Wálter Guevara]] | birth_name=David Padilla Arancibia | birth_date={{Birth date|1927|8|13|mf=y}} | birth_place=[[Sucre]], [[Bolivia]] | death_date={{death date and age|2016|9|25|1927|8|13|mf=y}} | death_place=[[La Paz]], Bolivia | nationality=Bolivian | profession=Military | spouse= | party= }} '''David Padilla Arancibia''' (August 13, 1927 &ndash; September 25, 2016) was a [[Bolivia]]n politician and military general. He was the former de facto president of [[Bolivia]]. He ruled his country from November 1978<ref>{{cite book|last=Morales|first=Waltraud Q.|title=A brief history of Bolivia|year=2010|publisher=Facts On File|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8160-7877-6|pages=194–6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ciuJkIPRsMC&dq=Padilla&pg=PA196|edition=2nd}}</ref> to August 1979.<ref>{{cite book|title=Latin America since 1930: economy, society and politics|year=1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press.|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0-521-46556-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FvPFc8VhFfkC&dq=David+Padilla+1979&pg=PA286|author=Leslie Bethell|edition=1|access-date=15 February 2011|page=286}}</ref> Padilla died in La Paz on 25 September 2016, at the age of 89. <ref>http://www.eldeber.com.bo/bolivia/fallecio-expresidente-david-padilla-arancibia.html</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Padilla, David}} [[Category:1927 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Generals]] [[Category:Presidents of Bolivia]] [[Category:South American military people]] {{bio-stub}}