general elections of 1913 by a wide margin, returning to the presidency for the second nonconsecutive time. Perhaps one of Montes' most important acts as President was the foundation of the Central Bank of the Bolivia, which would be crucial in centralizing the national ecnonomy. During his second term, the dissidence of Liberal Party members increased. Eventually, several liberals defected to Pando's newly founded Republican Party, which the former president had founded in 1914. As the end of his constitutional period approached, Montes promoted the candidacy of the liberal José Gutiérrez Guerra, a childhood friend of his most loyal ally, Atanasio de Urioste. Gutiérrez was triumphant, thus maintaining the hegemony of the Liberal Party. At the end of his government, Montes became the Bolivian ambassador to France. In 1920, he was still in the city of Paris, when the liberals were ousted from power by the republicans in Bolivia, which forced Montes to remain in France as an exile until 1928, the year in which he returned to assume the leadership of the Liberal Party yet again. The Chaco War and final years Throughout his life, Montes had an illustrious military career which began at an early age, initially participating in the War of the Pacific in 1879, then in the Civil War of 1898-1899, and finally in the War of Acre of 1900-1903. These international as well as internal conflicts had given him valuable experiences acquiring military prestige at the national level in a period of more than fifty years. It is for this reason that during the Chaco War (1932-1935), President Daniel Salamanca decided to commission him as military advisor to the Bolivian army in the Chaco. Montes was unable to witness the outcome nor conclusion of the war. While he was still serving as military advisor, due to his advanced age, he suddenly died on October 16, 1933 in the city of La Paz. References 1861 births 1933 deaths 20th-century Bolivian politicians Ambassadors of Bolivia to France Bolivian military personnel of the War of the Pacific Candidates in the 1904 Bolivian presidential election Candidates in the 1913 Bolivian presidential election Defense ministers of Bolivia Higher University of San Andrés alumni Liberal Party (Bolivia) politicians People from La Paz People of the Chaco War Presidents of Bolivia