The Genuine Republican Party (Spanish: Partido Republicano Genuino, PRG) was founded in Bolivia in 1921 by José María Escalier and Daniel Domingo Salamanca Urey following a split in the Republican Party.
Frightened, the urban upper class and traditional rural and regional elites rallied around Daniel Salamanca, a Cochabamba Department landowner and old-style patrician.
After the military overthrow of Hernando Siles Reyes in 1930, he was asked to head a coalition of Genuine Republicans and Liberals.
[5] The Salamanca government introduced an impopular austerity program and harshly clamped down on political opposition.
The eventual escalation of the war exacerbated severe economic problems in Bolivia (dating from the Great Depression of 1929), while causing many thousands of casualties.