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...Guadalupe, long ago, a peon named Juan Diego beheld a miraculous vision of the Virgin. Near that spot last week, a visionary Mexican industrialist, Antonio Ruiz Galindo, was starting an experiment that may likewise prove miraculous: a factory community, La Ciudad Industrial (the Industrial City). Mexican leaders and U.S. businessmen interested in Mexico are watching closely...
...Bolivian regime of Provisional President Gualberto Villarroel last week discovered and scotched a plot to overthrow it. Warned in the nick of time, the Government caught one conspirator actually handing out cash to soldiers. Bigger fish captured were ex-Minister of War Ernesto Hertzog, two generals, and Lawyer Nestor Galindo, charged with distributing a 20,000,000 peso ($450,000) corruption fund. Biggest fish: German-born Argentine-naturalized Tin Magnate Mauricio Hochschild, jailed as principal...
...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...