Word: morinigo
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...Bloque Austral dream was further punctured when Paraguay's President Hi-ginio Morinigo shuffled his Cabinet and moved toward democratic rule...
...finally voiced this view was Paraguay's round-faced, Dutch-descended Juan Plate, Minister of Finance. Last week, fed up, Juan. Plate resigned, gave his reasons in an angry document addressed to President Higinio Morinigo. A copy got out to Montevideo, and Dutchman Plate's blast against the Army be came public property...
...Army's insistent demands were driving Paraguay's budget clear out of sight; the Army was spending more annually than it had spent during the Chaco war. Under French-trained President José Félix Estigarribia, the Army had been kept in its place, but since Morinigo had taken office (1940), the colonels had got out of hand. Particularly rambunctious was the Chief of Staff, Colonel Bernardo Aranda, who had shown signs of liking the way the colonels did things down in Argentina. This year the Army's budget was 25 times what was given...
...Paraguay's President Higinio Morinigo had dined in Manhattan with a director of Union Oil. As Morinigo hoisted his food, he dropped a hint: oil gushed in the Bolivian Chaco, why not in the Paraguayan Chaco? The hint became a project. Soon three Union Oil geologists hacked their way through the Chaco brush. They reported that the region had a geological structure characteristic of oil fields...
...dictators have thin skins. Last week Morinigo canceled all Paraguayan Government subscriptions to La Nation. Then, on the pretext that the Associated Press had "misquoted" him in La Nation, he suspended the A.P. in Paraguay. Democrats began to wish that Dictator Morinigo would stop trying so hard to be democratic...