The Front of the Bolivian Revolution (Spanish: Frente de la Revolución Boliviana, FRB) was an electoral political alliance built as an electoral vehicle for René Barrientos Ortuño, who seized power in a military coup on November 4, 1964.
It was an alliance of: James Malloy describes the parties involvement as self-interested: "its reason for being was the desire of these little bands of politicians to ride into office on Barrientos' coattails.
[3] The Front won 67% of the vote in the 1966 election, which provided a mandate for Barrientos become a nominally civilian president.
Rather than join the front, they decided to organize as a Peasant Bloc ("bloque campesino").
[2] Military coups in 1969 and 1971 prevented any further elections until 1978, and the FRB did not participate further in Bolivian politics afterwards.