José Manuel Pando

José Manuel Inocencio Pando Solares (December 27, 1849 – June 17, 1917) is President of Bolivia between October 1899 and August 1904.

Born in Luribay (Department of La Paz), he studies medicine, joins the army during the War of the Pacific against Chile (1879–80), and later dedicates himself to exploring his country's vast and thinly populated lowland forests.

In the 1880s he joins the Liberal Party of Eliodoro Camacho (in opposition until 1899), becoming its leader in 1894.

Pando serves as Congressional Representative from Chuquisaca during the administration of Severo Fernández (1896–99) and is the nucleus around which coalesces the increasingly more vocal and seditious efforts of the Liberal Party to topple the Conservatives from power.

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