Word: galindo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bolivians understand that their ousted President Hernando Siles is now "somewhere in Chile." The revolutionary Government of General Carlos Blanco Galindo held a "Constitutional Election" last January, then vanished gracefully in March after staging the ornate inaugural of elected President Daniel Salamanca. He last fortnight pleased President Hoover by agreeing to seek Pan-American mediation of Bolivia's everlasting frontier dispute with Paraguay...
...Bolivian air force joined the revolution and the fortunes of Siles & Kundt were doomed. By week's end peace was restored and a military government under a General Carlos Blanco Galindo (the army still rules Bolivia) was in power. Ex-President Siles and family were enroute to the Chilean border under escort. General Kundt hid in shelter of the German Legation...
Tranquillity restored, 500 dead buried. General Galindo's military junta proceeded to promulgate its first decree. The decree provided for the election of a Constitutional Assembly: a new Parliament, full separation of the judiciary and (to honor the massacred students) of the educational system...