Word: mnr
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...such ultra-slick modern methods, the MNR (Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario) came into pow er in Bolivia. The rebels dashed about in Lend-Lease jeeps, invaded the homes of Government leaders and dragged them off to prison. Pro-U.S. President Enrique Peñaranda was later exiled to Chile. His 80-year-old mother died of fright. Two of Bolivia's three great tin barons, Mauricio Hochschild and Carlos Victor Aramayo, went into hiding. The greatest, Simon I. Patino, was safe in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, where he refused to answer the telephone...
...celebration. Street mobs screamed: "Down with the Jews! Down with the North Americans!" They stoned the U.S. Embassy, looted the offices of the Aramayo mining company, tore the roof off President Peñaranda's house, paraded about with the Presidential bathtub over their heads. Soon MNR members with white armbands stopped the party, but the people of La Paz had shown their dislike for the U.S., had cast doubt upon: 1) the U.S. State Department, and 2) the practical effect of the Good Neighbor policy...
...quick-march order, the MNR designated Bolivia's new rulers. The principal leaders were notably young, aggressive...