Word: chaco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city of Argentina's cotton belt. To a Government already well-nigh frantic over the country's economic troubles the delegation put one more problem. Rains had ruined half the cotton crop, last hope of that curiously international, politically chaotic, economically devastated region known as the Argentine Chaco...
Bolivia has an Army of 5,000, which can be pieced out to 70,000 in wartime. Its Air Force is negligible (20 planes), its Navy nonexistent, since Bolivia has no seacoast. Paraguay's Army contains only 3,000 men, but crack veterans of the Chaco and conscripts can raise it to 97,000. The Air Force and Navy are negligible. Uruguay has an Army of 8.000, plus well-trained police and mounted Republican Guards of 5,400. Uruguay's Air Force is being built from scratch with a military-aviation school and a $5,000,000 fund...
...Academy that he won a scholarship in the Chilean Army, later went to Europe where he boned up on French tactics at the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre. Soon after his return to Paraguay, war broke out with Bolivia. For three years he kept winning promotions in the Chaco jungles, rose to General and Commander in Chief by handing the superior, German-trained Bolivian Army a thorough pasting. When an armistice commission of tne U. S., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Peru broke the deadlock in 1935, José Félix Estigarribia won for Paraguay, on paper, more...
...voting was scarcely done the North American Way. The voters had been given no opportunity to elect anyone who had not fought in the Chaco War. That invalidated the two other candidates. But General Peñaranda no sooner donned his sash of office than he began to claim democracy had been restored, to talk about how warmly he will "welcome" and "guarantee" foreign capital invested "to improve communications and build hydroelectric plants...