Williams Kaliman

General Williams Kaliman Romero is the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Bolivia. In 2019 he called for the resignation of President Evo Morales after a disputed election, amid ongoing protests. Morales was seeking a 4th term.

Kaliman was born in the Chuquisaca Department. Kaliman attended the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), the military training school in Fort Benning, Georgia known in the past as the School of the Americas (SOA)—a notorious site of education for Latin American coup plotters dating back to the height of the Cold War—where he took the course “Comando y Estado Mayor” in 2003. In 2013 he served as Bolivia's military attaché in the embassy in Washington, D.C. and worked closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

He was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Bolivia in 2018.

He was a self-declared anti-colonialist and soldier for the process of change.

Interim president Jeanine Añez replaced him with General Carlos Orellana soon after Morales resigned and sought refuge in Mexico.