Word: andes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CHILE Fear Along the Andes...
...Congressional election campaign last week. But Chileans had another worry. They had often been warned against the Argentine militarists. Congressman Manuel González Vilches had returned from a trip to Chile's Argentine frontier, where, near Lonquimay in the south, the towering wall of the Andes drops to 4,500 ft. His eyes were bugging...
...full lieutenant-one of the youngest in the Army. For years he served as an instructor in military schools, taught military skiing on the Alpine runs of the Andes. In Army circles the word spread that Juan Perón was an unusually intelligent, alert professional soldier...
...police were killed by shellfire; street fighting raged for eleven hours. In other cities -Riobamba, Cuenca, Otavalo-the Carabineros surrendered or joined the Democratic Front with little bloodshed. In Quito, the sleepy capital of church bells, barefoot Indians and grand vistas, high up (9,500 ft.) in the Andes, the people poured into the streets. There, too, the Army came to their side, and the Carabineros capitulated...
...little city of San Juan (pop. 36,000), in the Andes of central Argentina, is famous for its wine, its liberal politics. This week it is a city of death...