Word: bloodlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just one month after Cuba's bloodless coup (see col. 3), Bolivia exploded last week in bloody revolution. Revolutions are no novelty in the remote Andean republic, which has averaged better than one a year since its liberation from Spain in 1825. Men the world over remember its 1946 rebellion, and the photographs of Dictator Gualberto Villarroel hanging from a lamppost (which is still a tourist attraction in La Paz). Last week, the heirs of Villarroel, fanatical members of the totalitarian Movement of National Revolution (M.N.R.), clawed their way back...
...cries of "Viva la revolution!" pierced the early-morning quiet of La Paz (pop. 350,000). M.N.R. partisans invaded public buildings, set up barricades, passed out guns. Seizing La Paz's most powerful radio station, they fooled at least part of the populace by announcing a "total and bloodless victory." But only part of the army joined them; at the last minute, top commanders swung their forces behind the junta government of General Hugo Ballivián. Bringing reinforcements from outlying towns, the government counterattacked with planes, artillery and mortars. Early next day, the M.N.R.'s top army...
Relaxing on the awning deck in shorts, the Strong Man was in his best bluff humor. Once again he was undisputed dictator of Cuba. In an almost bloodless coup last month, the tough ex-sergeant had toppled President Carlos Prío. Now Prío was in Miami exile; his powerful labor movement had knuckled under to the new ruler; Congress was suspended (on full pay), and Batista was dictator and "Provisional President" under a brand-new set of "statutes" he himself had proclaimed to the Cuban people. Nobody seemed perturbed by the coup, and throngs of other Cubans...
...such familiar nuisances as wildcat strikes and absenteeism. Cubans remembered Batista. In the past, he had used castor oil, midnight arrests or gunplay; his soldiers had ruthlessly put down abortive rebellions. He could afford to be economical with the weapon of terror. "It is my destiny to make bloodless revolutions," he bragged-and added a significant qualification: "The only blood spilled will be that of those who oppose...
Batista is back. The tough, smiling ex-sergeant, who bossed Cuba through eleven years of "disciplined democracy," this week toppled President Carlos Prio's constitutional regime from power in an almost bloodless army revolution...