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...Arze, the green-eyed ex-Williams College professor who is also boss of the Left Revolutionary Party (P.I.R.). That very evening, when the President entertained the Cabinet and others at dinner, the two P.I.R. ministers chilled the turkey by handing in their resignations. Next day Foreign Minister Luis Fernando Guachalla, whom Hertzog nosed out of the presidency last January, by only 279 votes, also called it quits...
Hastily Hertzog summoned his Conservatives, told them that busting his coalition would be the best way of bringing the totalitarian followers of the late Dictator Gualberto Villarroel to power. That did the trick. He reformed his Government of national unity in time for Guachalla, again Foreign Minister, to go to Rio for Bolivia. But he still had not found a place for Arze...
Finally the whole business was settled in secret meeting by the leaders of the two parties. The deal was that the new Congress would meet this week and confirm Dr. Enrique Hertzog, 49, as successor to the late, lynched Dictator-President Gualberto Villarroel. Hertzog had beat Luis Fernando Guachalla by only 289 votes in the January elections. In return for the settlement made with Guachalla and followers all challenged Guachalla congressmen were to be seated, thus assuring the Guachallistas of at least a fair chance of controlling the new Parliament. Hertzog promised to invite his friend and rival to join...
Hertzog will have more than alligators to worry about. The night after the peace meeting, Guachalla and Hertzog followers rioted in front of the Congress building. One Hertzog man fell and his fellows, thinking him dead, paraded through the streets with the body to cry shame upon the Guachallistas. Later they found the victim was only wounded. He died late that night in the emergency hospital...
Whoever won - Guachalla seemed to have the edge - Bolivia's new Government faced a stack of problems left by the totalitarian Villarroel regime. Living costs for the nation's 3,500,000 Indians, cholos (half breeds) and whites had zoomed 200% since 1939. Builders had never finished the highway (started with the help of U.S. funds) that would have given underfed population centers on the wind swept, 12,000-ft, altiplano food from the fertile lowlands. The $25,000,000 capital of Bolivia's RFC-like Development Corp. had been heavily tapped without bringing the country nearer...