Belisario Salinas

Belisario Salinas Belzu (19 February 1833 – 17 July 1893) was a Bolivian lawyer, teacher, and politician who served as the fifth vice president of Bolivia from 1880 to 1884.

In 1855, following the completion of his high school education, Salinas left Bolivia and traveled to Europe where he stayed for two years.

He returned to Bolivia in 1857 to obtain a law degree at the Higher University of San Andrés where he graduated as a lawyer in 1862.

Upon the death of Belzu, Salinas fled the new Melgarejo government to Peru where in 1868 he served as a French teacher at the seminary school in Puno.

Months later, he served an important role in the overthrow of Hilarión Daza in the midst of the War of the Pacific in late December 1879.