predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place religion imagesize party office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
alberto natusch luis garcía meza tejada 9 may 2011 cochabamba , bolivia la paz , bolivia catholic church 200px revolutionary -- 1988 -rrb- revolutionary party of the nationalist left -lrb- nationalist 1963 -- 1978 -rrb- revolutionary left front -lrb- 1978 -- movement 1980 -rrb- revolutionary left movement -lrb- 1988 -- 2011 -rrb- -lrb- 1948 -- 1963 ; 1980 president of deputies deputy in bolivian chamber of deputies of bolivia acting president of the bolivian chamber 28 august 1921 16 november 1979 1978 1956 lidia gueiler tejada1.jpg lidia gueiler tejada
 17 july 1980 17 july 1980 1964 lidia gueiler
lidia gueiler tejada

lidia gueiler tejada -lrb- 28 august 1921 -- 9 may 2011 -rrb- was the first female president of bolivia , serving in an interim capacity from 1979 to 1980 .
she was bolivia 's first -lrb- and thus far , only -rrb- female head of state , and the second in latin american history -lrb- the first was isabel perón in argentina between 1974 and 1976 -rrb- .
