Word: aramayo
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...been kidnapped by a group of Army officers pledged to remove all active opponents of Bolivia's new regime. One of the regime's professed aims is to whittle down the power of the three mining magnates (Simón I. Patiño, Carlos Victor Aramayo, Hochschild) who have long dominated Bolivian politics...
Scanty reports from Bolivia last week indicated that President Villarroel and his Government of young Army officers and intellectuals were again at war with the tin companies. Hochschild again was the chief antagonist. Patiño was in Montreal. Dapper Aramayo had ducked into sanctuary in the Spanish Embassy...
...Magnate. The Government had jailed the most active member of Bolivia's trinity of tin barons. The others: elderly Indian Simón Patiño (called one of the richest men in the world), who has not visited Bolivia since 1923; and elegant, Oxford-bred Carlos Victor Aramayo, who looks in remote La Paz like Anthony Eden in exile...
Hochschfld's arrest meant that the Villarroel Government had declared total war on the three great tin companies (Patino, Hochschild, Aramayo), which traditionally dominate Bolivia. Last President to oppose the tin barons was German Busch, who died in 1939. Officially he committed suicide, but many Bolivians believe that he was murdered...
...live on the edge of starvation. In December 1943, a revolt of social-minded intellectuals allied with young Army officers attacked tin-company control by driving President Enrique Peñaranda into exile. The people of La Paz ran cheering through the streets, wrecked the office of Aramayo Co., stoned the U.S. Embassy...