Legión de Ex-Combatientes | |
| Abbreviation | LEC |
|---|---|
| Formation | 13 September 1935 |
| Founder | Germán Busch |
| Dissolved | c. 1939 |
| Type | Chaco War veterans' organization |
| Headquarters | La Paz, Bolivia |
Supreme Leader | Germán Busch (1937–1939) Bernardino Bilbao Rioja (1939) |
| Affiliations | Socialist Single Front |
The Legion of Veterans (Spanish: Legión de Ex-Combatientes, LEC) was a Bolivian Chaco War veterans' organization.[1] It was organized on 13 September 1935 by Lieutenant Colonel Germán Busch from various local veterans groups which had established themselves across the country following the end of the Chaco War.[2] Despite its apolitical stance and fairly consistent commitment to non-party affiliation, the LEC, as a result of its sheer size and ideological commitment to the reformist ideals of the so-called generación del Chaco, soon came to act as the principal source of organized civil-military support for the military regimes of Colonel David Toro and later Lieutenant Colonel Germán Busch.