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> Laura Glynn of Hartford, Conn., and Elsie Monje of Guayaquil, Ecuador, who organize destitute peasants in Ecuador and, as a result, endure constant denunciations as "Communist agitators." Based in Quito, the nuns advise labor and peasant organizers and students. Just now they are obtaining medical aid for several hundred Andean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Those Beleaguered Maryknollers | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

Violated Discipline. The most serious problem, as both Che and Castro make clear, was the hostility of Bolivia's Communist Party and its secretary-general, Mario Monje, to the idea of guerrilla warfare. From the day he arrived in disguise on the deserted cattle ranch that served as the guerrilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Che's Diary | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

An attempt on the life of Acting President Tomás Monje Gutierrez touched it off. Just before noon a demented young ex-officer named Luis Oblitas rushed into the Presidential Palace, clubbed the secretary, leveled his gun at the President and shouted, "I'm going to be President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Lampposts of La Paz | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Tossed into the Bolivian broth last fortnight was white-haired, sexagenarian Judge Tomás Monje Gutierrez, a political moderate who took over as President of the junta. From a window of the presidential palace that overlooked the Villarroel lamppost, he delivered his inaugural speech. Said he, "Whenever you people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Interim | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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