Word: gualberto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...most carefully chiseled pieces in Juan Peron's "southern bloc" of republics was the Bolivian Government of the late President Gualberto Villarroel. But just as his deputies were about ready to sign the trade treaty with Argentina that would have sealed the Bolivians in for good, Villarroel was lynched, last July...
...spontaneous had been last month's uprising, that not until hours after President Gualberto Villarroel's body swung from its lamppost had revolutionists gathered to form a representative junta. To the junta and to outsiders from Buenos Aires to Washington, the victory parade was one bit of evidence among many that both revolution and junta had popular support. But no one, either in Bolivia or abroad, seemed to know in what direction the new Government would...
Bolivians had cut down from a La Paz lamppost the blood-smeared body of President Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, July 29). But in Buenos Aires the Bolivian coup had loosed anti-Peron wisecracks. One of them: "I'm waiting for L-day"-"What's that?"-"Lamppost day." And not only wisecracks. In the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, oppositionist Deputy Ernesto San Martino predicted: "The masses never forgive spurious politicians nor false leaders nor a clay idol...
Tyranny was repaid with death. At the end of 96 hours of bloody fighting, the body of President Gualberto Villarroel last week hung from a "lamp post in La Paz's handsome Plaza Murillo. His bemedaled official photograph decorated the sheet that draped his naked body, and one of his military boots hung from under...