Word: aranda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What finally burned Juan Plate to a crisp, it appeared, was what Chief of Staff Aranda had to say about a proposal to build schools for 74,000 Paraguayan children. The Colonel's answer: the Army's needs were more urgent; the children could wait. The Army would see to their education (the boys, anyhow) when they...
When Colonel Aranda read Juan Plate's statement last week he thundered: "Paraguayans' patriotism must be protected from exotic ideologies and from political excesses. The crucible where this gift [patriotism] is forged is in the barracks...
...than it had spent during the Chaco war. Under French-trained President José Félix Estigarribia, the Army had been kept in its place, but since Morinigo had taken office (1940), the colonels had got out of hand. Particularly rambunctious was the Chief of Staff, Colonel Bernardo Aranda, who had shown signs of liking the way the colonels did things down in Argentina. This year the Army's budget was 25 times what was given to the Ministry of Agriculture, 35 times as much as the Ministry of Commerce & Industry could...
...mining supplies 70-90% of Bolivian economy. The 65,000 ragged, sickly miners average about 60? a day, 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...
...visible Army support for a counterrevolution, although an attempt at one was possible. Other attempts might be inspired by ex-President David Toro, reportedly in Washington, or by deposed President Peñaranda, who issued a die-hard statement from Tacna, Peru...