Word: bolivians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporter in La Paz tried to telephone the news to his office in Buenos Aires. Bolivian military censors...
...reward of one million bolivianos ($23,000), but no news came of his whereabouts. One theory: Hochschild was murdered or kidnapped by friends of Labor Leader José Antonio Arze, his longtime enemy and short-time political ally, who was shot and nearly killed a few weeks ago. Another: Bolivian nationalists, who hate the big tin interests, resented the Government's letting Hochschild out of jail (for connection with an attempted revolution), and giving him permission to leave the country...
During the excitement, the Bolivian Congress met as an Electoral College. After some tense maneuvering, it promoted Provisional President Gualberto Villarroel to legal President. The relation between the election and Hochschild's disappearence, though rumored, did not leak out through tight Bolivian censorship...
...last week let super-rich Mauricio Hochschild out of jail and prepared to deport him. Jailed for counter-revolutionary plotting, the tin tycoon had escaped worse punishment by promising to keep out of Bolivia and her politics. Tricky Don Mauricio had always managed to keep a potent hand in Bolivian affairs (TIME, May 8). But President Gualberto Villarroel's regime evidently felt strong enough to deal with him in one way or another...
...worst of being exiled. He had many potent Argentine and U.S. friends. His foresighted charities had won him the support of many groups, including Jewish refugees. Benjamin Cohen, Chilean Ambassador to Bolivia, interceded for him. Even behind bars, Don Mauricio was still a power-center of Bolivian politics...