Word: paz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the trouble started. Students in the capital city of La Paz held a huge open-air demonstration against the Siles-Kundt regime. General Kundt met this in the only way he knew. Police blocked every exit from the square, machine guns wheeled into position. Under their hideous rattle 100 screaming boys fell never to rise again. As many more were wounded. The Government did its best to suppress news of the riot but Bolivians had seen the bodies in the streets. The country was aroused. General Kundt posted loyal troops on the hills above the capital, threatened...
...looked out of a window of the La Paz club I saw fleeing men and women picked off by rifle fire. ... A friend who had called on me ... tried to leave for his own hotel on Thursday, but every time his head appeared in the doorway police fired. . . . Victims were dragged back out of sight...
...Imperialismo del Petrolio y la Paz Mundial -Camillo Trelles...
...Next meeting of the Pan-American Medical Association will be at Lima, Peru, beginning Jan. 31, 1931. President is C. Paz-Soldan of Peru, president at large Maria Fernandez of Cuba...