Enrique Finot (16 September 1891 – 23 December 1952)[1][2] was a Bolivian historian[3] writer, editor, and diplomat.[4] He served as foreign minister under Colonel David Toro and during the period of his nationalizing Standard Oil.[5] He has been described as conservative.[6]
He was born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, on 16 September 1890, son of the French engineer Juan Francisco Finot and the Bolivian Olinfa Oliva.[7]
Enrique Finot received his education at Colegio Nacional Florida in Santa Cruz de la Sierra,[8] before continuing his studies at the Escuela Normal de Maestros de Sucre, now known as the Escuela Superior de Formación de Maestros Mariscal Sucre.[8]
In 1908 he qualified as a professor of drawing and cartography and dedicated himself to teaching for a few years, during which time he wrote Historia de la pedagogía boliviana.[9]
He entered the diplomatic service in 1917, which took him to Peru, Argentina, the United States and Mexico.
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