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Manuel Isidoro Belzu Humerez (14 April 1808 23 March 1865) was president of Bolivia from 1848 to 1855.

Born in La Paz, Bolivia to humble mestizo parentage, Belzu was educated by Franciscan friars and joined the wars of independence in his youth, combatting under Andres de Santa Cruz at Zepita (1823) when he was 17.

An aide to Agustin Gamarra, he separated himself from the Peruvian army when the latter entered Bolivia in 1828. Sent as garrison commander to Tarija, he married "up" by wedding a beautiful and intellectual Argentine lady residing there.

Belzu fought in the battles of the Confederacy and was elevated to the post of Army commander by President Jose Ballivian, under whose orders he had