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...last July's bloody revolution and its lamppost lynchings. In part token, they had picked for next week's presidential elections two ultra-moderate candidates: Enrique Hertzog, 49-year-old surgeon who fought Dictator-President Villarroel and went to jail for it; and short, balding Luis Fernando Guachalla, 47, ex-Minister to Washington and friend of Cordell Hull. Both had helped run the melancholy Chaco War with Paraguay. (Last week, while the two old-line nominees campaigned in the interior, dissident laborites in La Paz put up a third candidate, General Felix Tavera. He figured to run third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Tokens & Tin | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...close touch with anti-Villarroel elements are Dr. Luis Fernando Guachalla, the deposed Bolivian Government's Ambassador to the U.S., and Manuel Carrasco, former President of the Bolivian Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Counterattack | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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