Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seriously Compromised." The notorious Major Elias Belmonte Pabon, former Bolivian attache at the legation in Berlin, was an intimate collaborator with the Sicherheitsdienst (a combination intelligence, espionage and sabotage service) officials and received an annual greasing of 20,000 Reichsmarks from the German Foreign Office. The conspiracy, in which Peron & Co. took active parts, was aimed at the overthrow of the Bolivian government, where a pro-axis Putsch was indeed brought off in December...
...founded his diplomatic reputation on his settlement of the Chaco war (1932-35) between Paraguay and Bolivia. After three years of feckless negotiations, Braden took to the radio, bluntly addressed the Paraguayan and Bolivian people over the delegates' heads. A settlement followed quickly...
...Paraguay's President Higinio Morinigo had dined in Manhattan with a director of Union Oil. As Morinigo hoisted his food, he dropped a hint: oil gushed in the Bolivian Chaco, why not in the Paraguayan Chaco? The hint became a project. Soon three Union Oil geologists hacked their way through the Chaco brush. They reported that the region had a geological structure characteristic of oil fields...
...little news did leak out. Hochschild, jailed twice as a political conspirator, had vanished during the Bolivian national elections. The story was that he had 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...
Patiño was last reported to be riding out the Bolivian blow in Montreal. Hochschild was rumored to be about to fly to Chile. His promise to leave Bolivia may have been the condition of his release. Only Aramayo would be left in Bolivia. Last week Señora Aramayo, her lips shut tight, arrived by plane in Buenos Aires...