Word: almaraz
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Having failed to rouse the citizens of La Paz to fight as they did in 1946, the rebels surrendered. Probably 50 had been killed, over 200 wounded in the fighting. Among 400 prisoners were leaders of the Bolivian Confederation of Labor and Sergio Almaraz, the leading Bolivian Communist. At week's end the schoolteachers accepted a flat 10% pay raise (they had originally asked for a sliding scale ranging up to 70%), and the general strike seemed to be broken...