Following Colonel Busch's suicide in August 1939, conservative forces reasserted themselves, took power, and propitiated the 1940 elections in which the traditional (oligarchic) parties linked to the country's big mining interests (known as "La Rosca") triumphed at the polls with General Enrique Peñaranda.
Enrique Iglesias | Enrique Chagoya | Enrique Peñalosa | Enrique Guzmán | Luis Enrique | Enrique | Luis Enrique Vergara | Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop | Enrique Santos Discépolo | Enrique Peña Nieto | Enrique Granados | Xavier Enrique Torres | José Enrique Arrarás | Enrique Osses | Enrique Mario Francini | Enrique Krauze | Enrique Jorrín | Enrique de Guzmán, 2nd Duke of Medina Sidonia | Enrique Coria | Enrique Bunbury | Enrique Bolaños | San Enrique, Iloilo | San Enrique | Jorge Enrique Adoum | Infante Enrique, Duke of Seville | Enrique Salinas | Enrique Peñaranda | Enrique Mosconi | Enrique Morales | Enrique Metinides |
A string of devastating defeats on the southern front of the war at the hands of the Paraguayans, who knew the terrain much better than the Bolivians (most of whom hailed from the Altiplano Highlands) precipitated Kundt's replacement by General Enrique Peñaranda at the end of 1933.