Word: ibanez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Blanquier represented the Opposition. Wily President Ibanez allowed him to assume office when the press of Chile's financial difficulties and secret political plottings threatened open revolution. One of Premier Blanquier's first moves was to declare a moratorium on Chile's foreign debt, from Chile's point of view a much needed step (TIME, July 27). Not satisfied with that, he restored freedom of the press. Emissaries carried to Dictator Ibanez news of still more drastic reforms in the offing. Last week, eight days after taking office, Premier Blanquier and his ministers announced that...
...crowd of over 2,000 organized a parade and attempted to march to Chile's White House, the Casa Moneda. Kept away by a formidable cordon of police, the crowd retreated, relieved its feelings by tossing bricks through the windows of the Casa del Pueblo (founded by Ibanez). Then it gathered in front of the home of Miguel Letelier who had been suggested in the evening papers as Minister of the Interior, and set up a sing-song chant, "Don't join the Cabinet! Don't join the Cabinet...
Miguel Letelier did join the Cabinet, but it did not do him much good. Premier Gana resigned 24 hours later. Dictator Ibanez immediately scraped up another cabinet under the leadership of Carlos Froedden, one of his oldest friends...
This might have filled the bill if the people of Chile had not suddenly decided that if eight days of Blanquier were long enough for Ibanez, four years of Ibanez were long enough for them. Crowds rioted for three days, overturning trolley cars, shouting "We want the head of Ibanez...
...Ibanez kept his head, resigned in favor of Vice President Pedro Opazo Letelier, slipped through deserted streets at dawn into the country and over the border to Argentina...