Word: lechin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stiff hike in the price of gasoline and other fuels and a 25% peso devaluation. But her tough new plan provoked a warning from the heads of the powerful Central Labor Federation, which had sponsored a general strike that helped propel Natusch from office. Workers, declared Federation Leader Juan Lechin Oquendo, "will not accept economic measures that affect their income." If Gueiler's new proposals are carried out, he threatened, his followers were ready to "struggle in the streets...
...Earlier this month, 221 delegates from labor unions, student groups and other political factions calling themselves the Popular Assembly met for a ten-day session in the National Congress Building. (Congress has not convened since 1969.) After electing powerful Mine Leader Juan Lechin Oquendo as its president, the Assembly made it plain that it fully intends to play Congress to Torres' President. It passed resolutions demanding the establishment of "people's courts" to investigate political crimes, urging the expulsion of all U.S. military and intelligence personnel, and calling for worker representation in the management of the state-owned...