Word: junta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand over power to the M.N.R. As it was, he was only too glad to bow out and let the army take over. Result: one of the quietest revolutions in Latin American history. Brigadier General Hugo Ballivián, 49, Chaco War hero, became head of a ten-man junta (three generals, seven colonels). Ex-President Urriolagoitia rode peacefully from the palace to the airport, boarded a plane for Arica, Chile. Not a shot was fired...
Most revolutions are masterminded by a strong man or a junta or a committee of the elite, but in Panama last week the people themselves pulled the revolutionary strings. Panama's official President-maker, Colonel José ("Chichi") Remón, bided his time and eventually supplied the firepower...
Casting about for a civilian front man to head their regime and give it some badly needed prestige, members of Venezuela's military junta last week looked hopefully at Dr. Arnaldo Gabaldón, famed organizer of Venezuela's outstandingly successful fight against malaria. They wanted Dr. Gabaldón, a nonparty man, to take the place of President Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, assassinated during an abortive revolt in Caracas (TIME...
Gabaldón tentatively accepted the job, but added one condition: all political parties must be represented in the new government. Hard-bitten Lieut. Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the junta's boss, spurned the terms as "too idealistic." This week the junta installed German Suaréz Flammerich, ex-ambassador to Peru and a nonparty man like Gabaldón, as its new president. Flammerich presumably made no idealistic conditions. As for elections, which Venezuela has long hoped for, Boss Pérez Jiménez said that was a problem calling for "further study...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, 41, U.S.-trained (at Fort Leavenworth's Command & General Staff School) head of Venezuela's current military junta; by an assassin's bullet; in Caracas. Through the curious workings of Venezuelan politics, Chalbaud led the 1945 revolution which installed leftish Romulo Gallegos as President, three years later helped overthrow Gallegos, clamped army controls on the country, promised elections (but never got around to them), ruled precariously and without unified support even from the army...