Word: junta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Villaroel's Finance Minister, Victor Paz Estenssoro, ran for the presidency from exile in Buenos Aires. He won, only to have the result set aside by an army junta that grabbed power. Egged on by the tin firms, the junta risked the collapse of Bolivia's tottering economy to wage a war of bluff with Stuart Symington, then head of RFC, trying to force him to buy Bolivia's tin for the U.S. near the Korea-scare price of $1.90 a Ib. Soon food ran short in Bolivian cities. Paz's nationalists shouted: "Bread...
From jungle clearings and Caracas villas, 2,000,000 Venezuelan voters trooped to the polls this week. Promised ever since a military junta overthrew the country's legitimately elected regime four years ago, the election was for a constitutional Congress which will design a new government and name a new President...
...junta Independent Electoral Front (F.E.I.) was pitted against a pair of opposition parties, the Social Christian COPEI and the leftish Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.). Bossed by owlish Colonel Marcos Perez Jimenez, the junta harassed the opposition, jailed its leaders, censored its press. COPEI and U.R.D. reluctantly entered the race in hope of getting a few seats...
When the first 332,000 votes were counted, U.R.D. had a 2-to-1 edge over the government party, with COPEI trailing. Was a government defeat, entirely unexpected, in prospect? The junta, which had kept the Caracas papers from printing the early returns, suddenly clamped its censorship on all outgoing news cables...
...year ago, the junta fired its secret police chief and put ex-Gumshoe Pedro Estrada in the job. His orders: get Ruiz Pineda in 30 days. Estrada tracked the resistance boss one night to a Caracas apartment-house district, and surrounded the building with 80 cops. But while Estrada watched, Ruiz Pineda shot his way to freedom. In the months since then, Estrada has been searching Caracas, house by house, for clues leading to the slippery man he knew was never more than a few blocks or a few miles away...