Word: galindo
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...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...