Word: godoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commander of the rebel army entrenched in downtown Santo Domingo, were honoring the ceasefire. Both sides appeared close to an agreement on the choice of a man to head an interim government until elections can be held. He was Héctor García Godoy, 44, a middle-roading liberal who once served as Foreign Minister in the Cabinet of deposed President Juan Bosch...
...bravado was in vain. Warned that his comrades-in-arms were determined to remove him, Pérez Godoy had tried to rally support among provincial military commanders and among civilians working toward new presidential elections in June. All his efforts failed. Just before dawn, Pérez Godoy got into a car with his wife Lola and drove off to his suburban home...
More Equal. According to his fellow soldiers, Pérez Godoy was growing too attached to his job as senior man among the junta's four ''co-Presidents." First, he decided that he and his wife should live in the palace while the other junta members and their wives stayed home. Next, his wife, who presumably shared authority with the three other junta wives in running the National Board for Social Assistance, seemed to want to be more equal than the others. Then Pérez Godoy started issuing orders...
Promising a "new Peru," Pérez Godoy pushed through a 24% increase in the budget and decreed new taxes to pay for it, including a $1-a-ton levy on anchovies that provoked a strike and threatened to close down the thriving fishmeal industry. And when he refused to approve the construction of a new hospital for Vargas Prada's air force and six new ships for Torres Matos' national steamship line, the other junta members turned...
Pressured Promise. Politically, Pérez Godoy was generally in favor of carrying out the promised June elections even if they should result in a victory for the leftist-turned-moderate APRA Party of Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre. The other junta members, more responsive to the sentiments of old-line army men who remember bloody clashes with the Apristas in the 19305, were not so sure. But Peruvians outside the barracks, particularly Haya's main rivals-nationalistic Architect Fernando Belaúnde Terry and ex-Army Strongman Manuel Odria-insisted that the promised elections...