Word: arequipa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Siles and his strong-armed Prussian henchman, General Hans Kundt, the litmus turned red. Trouble was brewing in the southern provinces. President Leguia promptly demoted overambitious army officers, closed universities, arrested student agitators. But the trouble spread, the litmus stayed red. One Luis Sanchez Cerro, Colonel of Sappers at Arequipa near the Chilean border, declared open rebellion fortnight ago. In four days, progressing almost without bloodshed, the revolution forced President Leguia to invalidate his statue, sign his own abdication...
...dared last week was Lieut.-Colonel Sanchez Cerro in Arequipa, far to the South...
News came to President Leguia that rebels had gained control of the departments of Arequipa, Puno and Cuzco. Announced the Leguia government...
This boy, the President explained, had been present when he addressed the citizens of La Punta, when he received a delegation of students from Arequipa and when he opened the San Marcos University a few days ago. "Well, what of it?" puzzled Deputies began to ask each other...