Óscar Únzaga

{{Short description|Bolivian falangist political leader}}

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{{family name hatnote|Únzaga|de la Vega|lang=Spanish}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Óscar Únzaga

| image = Óscar Únzaga de la Vega.jpg

| office = Leader of the Bolivian Socialist Falange

| term_start = 15 August 1945

| term_end = 19 April 1959

| predecessor = Himself {{Small|(as general secretary)}}

| successor = Mario Gutiérrez

| office2 = General Secretary of the Bolivian Socialist Falange

| term_start2 = 15 August 1937

| term_end2 = 15 August 1945

| predecessor2 = Office established

| successor2 = Himself {{Small|(as party leader)}}

| birth_name = Óscar Únzaga de la Vega

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|04|19|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Cochabamba, Bolivia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1959|04|19|1916|04|19|df=yes}}

| death_place = La Paz, Bolivia

| death_cause = Suicide

| party = Bolivian Socialist Falange

}}

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Óscar Únzaga de la Vega (19 April 1916 – 19 April 1959) was a Bolivian political figure and rebel. Most significantly, he founded the Bolivian Socialist Falange (FSB) movement in 1937, and ran for President in the 1956 elections, when his party became the main opposition movement to the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR).

In 1959 Únzaga was one of fifty who died during an attempted coup by the FSB, with government forces reporting that he killed himself.Phil Gunson, Andrew Thompson & Greg Chamberlain, The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of South America, London: Routledge, 1990, pp. 38-39 Supporters disputed the official version and stated that Únzaga had been assassinated. He is revered as a hero and martyr by some factions of well-to-do Bolivian political elites.