Word: paz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning last week, the traffic cops of La Paz, Bolivia, raised their authoritative hands, stopped all passing cars and took them to headquarters. More cops, with members of the National Revolutionary Movement, invaded the telephone exchange, seized a radio station, broadcast the premature news that the revolt was already successful. Government troops were confused, taken over by plotting officers. Only one regiment held out, in Calama Barracks, where it was soon reduced by mortar fire. Forty nine were killed and 120 wounded. Sporadic shooting continued for two days, but the revolution was practically won in the first hours...
...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...
Latin Americans sometimes call Bolivia the "loose kidney of South America." This week she underwent a minor operation: a pre-dawn revolution staged by Army and Nationalist groups. President Enrique Penaranda was deposed, and a junta led by bespectacled Professor Victor Paz Estenssoro took over. "The new government," said Professor Paz quickly, "in no case will alter the position [of Bolivia] on the side of the United Nations...
Back to his capital, La Paz, after a visit to Brazil went President Enrique Peñaranda of Bolivia last week, his face wreathed in the most satisfied smile any Bolivian President has worn in years. In his pocket were trade agreements just concluded with his big neighbor to the east. The chief prize: Bolivian rights to use the Brazilian port of Santos as a free port, thus gaining an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean...
...Brazil would establish a branch of her national bank at La Paz, and both countries would declare a mutual frontier area where both their currencies might circulate...