Word: foianini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign mining interests. Capital to build Government-dominated tin foundries (the Bolivian mines of Tycoon Simon I. Patiño produce about 15% of the world's supply) was being sought in Manhattan last week by Busch's Minister of Mines & Petroleum Dionisio Foianini, son of an Italian father and Bolivian mother, second husband of a girl from New Haven, Conn, whom a Bolivian artist took home with him from Yale. Señor Foianini offered no theory other than nervous suicide about the dead Condor last week. But he was deeply sad, and in a great hurry...
...Gran Chaco, and an oil refinery in Paraguay, Bolivia planned to ship some $15,000,000 of goods, principally petroleum, to oil-hungry Nazis. The man who made the announcement was not mournful Dictator Busch, but his tough, roving-eyed sidekick and Minister of Mines and Petroleum, Dionisio Foianini...
...years ago Señor Foianini engineered expropriation of the Standard Oil Co. of Bolivia's $17,000,000 Bolivian fields. Ranking 28th in the world's 28 major oil-producing countries, Bolivia last year produced only 106,620 barrels (U. S. production: 1,213,254,000). But potentially important oil resources lie in the foothills of the Andes, where, on its 2,500,000 acres, Standard Oil operated six wells on a 55-year contract before expropriation. Last month Senor Foianini arranged two important treaties that made their extensive exploitation possible. Argentina agreed to permit transportation...
When Lieut. Colonel Busch grabbed power two years ago, grabby Señor Foianini went along, became last year Minister of Mines and Petroleum in Germán Busch's Cabinet. First Busch acts were to cancel wartime censorship, announce his intention to hold elections, introduce civilians to his Cabinet. But the next year press censorship was made more rigorous, extremist agitation was outlawed. In November groups of more than three were forbidden to congregate on the streets of La Paz (pop. 142,547). When dormant political parties recently began to stir restlessly, President Busch enlarged the Senate from...
...front, demanded that elections be free of Government interference. At 11 p. m. one night, a week before the election, President Busch called a Cabinet meeting in La Paz, announced his dictatorship, refused to accept resignations. At 1 a. m. Cabinet officers went home, leaving the President and Minister Foianini to scribble out a program for the first classically totalitarian State in the Western Hemisphere.* At 6 a. m. they completed a proclamation not only abolishing the Senate, Chamber of Deputies, the Constitution, all courts, all legal codes, but establishing a dictatorship over Bolivian political, financial and social life. They...