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When a rumor got around La Paz last week that the President was deep in a closed-door conference with the generals and colonels, paceños knew that something was up. At 3 a.m., weary reporters saw President Mamerto Urriolagoitia and two military aides hustle out of the palace, get into a car and drive away. Then army officers Banded out a batch of press releases, including a message from Urriolagoitia: "Despite my constant efforts to conduct the political struggle into channels of peace and tranquillity . . . our country is again faced with a dilemma . . . Accordingly, I hereby deliver...
Only Too Glad. From the day he took over the burdens of government from ailing President Enrique Hertzog in May 1949, elegant Mamerto Urriolagoitia had had his hands so full of strikes, plots and uprisings that he could make little progress in dealing with Bolivia's economic ills. Desperate for a remedy, Bolivians went to the polls three weeks ago and all jut elected exiled Presidential Candidate Victor Paz Estenssoro, leader in absentia of the Movement of National Revolution. Despite the M.N.R.'s old record of Nazi-style violence, Paz Estenssoro won a clear plurality...
...which the capital's citizens hanged their dictator from a lamppost. This time the capital's schoolteachers touched off the explosion by demanding higher pay to offset the government's recent currency devaluation. Within hours, a raging mob was surging through the streets denouncing Conservative President Mamerto Urriolagoitia (pronounced ooreo-la-goytcha...
Having beaten down half a dozen uprisings and one full-scale civil war in three years, Bolivian officials moved swiftly to meet another crisis last week. "In view of irrefutable evidence that subversive preparations were afoot," suave, bearded President Mamerto Urriolagoitia ordered the exile of ten civilians and army officers (including one general) and slapped on a drum-tight state of siege...
This time, the plot was fully hatched; except for the sharp-eared intelligence service of Minister of Government and Justice Alfredo Mollinedo, it might have overthrown elegant, bearded Acting President Mamerto Urriolagoitia before he knew what had hit him. Hearing rumblings of the plot, Mollinedo moved fast. In La Paz, he arrested most of M.N.R.'s underground general staff; he also captured rifles, submachine guns, ammunition, grenades and documents listing the rebel "government" that was to be headed by exiled M.N.R. Chieftain Víctor Paz Estenssoro...