Word: lozada
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months, students at Guadalupe had petitioned and protested against dormitories so crowded that 120 slept in a single room, against wretched food, a shortage of water. They had demanded dismissal of the school's director as incompetent and dishonest. Finally brusque Education Minister Cristóbal de Lozada Puga. an anti-Aprista, visited Guadalupe, promised to investigate conditions, warned the students against political agitation. The students went on strike...
...Washington. One knot of the tangle was in Washington. Tall, dark, earnest Dr. Enrique Lozada, "Head of the Bolivian Mission," was in the odd position of trying to secure recognition for a Government which he himself did not entirely recognize. An avowed and convincing liberal, he has lived 14 years in the U.S., and has no direct connection with any Bolivian party. Just after the La Paz revolt he quit his job as adviser to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Last week he paced disconsolately around the orphaned Bolivian Embassy, not knowing what would happen...
Obviously disturbed by the pro-Fascist elements in the Villarroel regime, Dr. Lozada is well aware that nothing like U.S. democracy can now exist in Bolivia, where only 100,000 of some 3,500,000 people have the vote. But, within Bolivian limits, he was trying to make the new Government toe the democratic mark. One move was to cable five conditions which the regime would have to meet before he would serve as its official representative...
...mine owners, had been satisfactory; after all, Bolivian tin kept flowing north, and that was the main thing. But from Washington came indications that the new government intended to cooperate fully with the U.S. The new government's "confidential agent" in Washington was Dr. Enrique de Lozada, onetime lecturer at Williams and Harvard, ex-adviser to the Rockefeller committee on Inter-American Affairs. Dr. Lozada assured Washington of the new government's desire to cooperate...
Enrique Sanchez de Lozada, onetime Bolivian diplomat, now a Williams professor; Dr. Carlos Garcia-Mata, an Argentine businessman; and Roger W. Riis, son of the late social worker, Jacob Riis...