Word: estenssoro
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...Full amnesty is hereby given to all citizens indicted, charged, convicted, detained, confined or exiled for political reasons, without any exceptions," said the single-sentence decree signed by President Victor Paz Estenssoro one day last week. At 2 o'clock the next morning, the iron gates of San Pedro jail in La Paz creaked open, and 300 political prisoners jostled their way out into the darkness, some carrying little violins and chess sets that they had carved with penknives during confinements of as long as three years. The most notable among the liberated men: Gustavo Stumpf, tall, blond leader...
...Estenssoro, taking power in a leftist revolution in 1952, nationalized the big tin mines and energetically pushed the state oil monopoly, formed in 1937 after an earlier government had forced out Standard Oil Co. of N.J. On the face of it, these moves made the chance of new foreign oil investment in Bolivia look dim indeed. Nonetheless, Paz Estenssoro made a hard-boiled decision that Bolivia needed foreign capital, and in 1955 enacted a liberal code for oil operators from abroad. Last week Pittsburgh's Gulf Oil Corp., first big operator to move in, signed a 40-year agreement...
Gulf's operation at Kuwait on the Persian Gulf makes it No. 2 (after Jersey Standard) among U.S. oil companies in world production. Company chiefs evidently concluded that the 1952 tin nationalization was a political necessity, and that Paz Estenssoro is now able to get on realistically with the development of the country. The exploration area granted to Gulf is-ironically enough-part of Jersey Standard's old concession...
...grab-bag M.N.R., called Fascist until it seized power in a revolt in 1952, has two main factions: 1) moderate leftists, 2) Trotskyite doctrinaires. The Trotskyites, led by Juan Lechin, were kept in line by President Victor Paz Estenssoro and Foreign Minister Guevara, both moderates. Two weeks ago the M.N.R., in convention, chose another moderate, Vice President Hernan Siles Zuazo, as the party's candidate for the forthcoming presidential elections. Then, as the convention went on, Guevara and Lechin began trading verbal blows from the floor...
...that the mines' tin-baron owners and the government they dominated provoked the massacre. Moving to the kill, Lechin got up a convention resolution denouncing Guevara for "inexact and tendentious statements." Siles, who could lose the next election without Lechin's support, signed it; so did Paz Estenssoro. Guevara had no choice but to resign...