Word: mollinedo
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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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...
Bombs on La Paz. Before Mollinedo could strike outside the capital, insurgent army officers and civilians moved on police headquarters and other government buildings in every provincial capital. By the end of the first week's fighting, they had picked up support from the Trotskyite Workers Revolutionary Party (P.O.R.), bombed La Paz three times, taken over the important cities of Sucre, Potosí, Santa Cruz and Cochabamba...
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