Word: paz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That only made Bloc-Builder Peron chip harder. Following the practice made familiar in Uruguay and Brazil, wheat and cattle shipments to Bolivia were virtually cut off. In the last two months it was estimated that barely a fifth of normal imports crossed the frontier from Argentina. In La Paz the price of butter tripled. Bolivian officials, loth to antagonize their big neighbor further, kept quiet, but a La Paz housewife said: "When I saw Villarroel hanged, I never thought our beef had been hanged...
Howling and shouting, the mob boiled down La Paz' cobbled streets to the jail. There they broke in, seized Jorge Eguino and José Escobar, the Villarroel police chiefs held since July for trial. These were the men who had admitted directing the massacre of scores of oppositionist leaders at Oruro in November 1944. Both were dragged twelve blocks to the plaza's lampposts. Escobar was probably dead before he got there, but they hanged him anyway...
...vanguard, on trucks and makeshift ambulances, came the wounded who fell in overthrowing the Bolivian tyranny (TIME, July 29). Then followed rifle-toting men & women, exultant students, ordinary citizens. Fifty thousand strong, they paraded last week through La Paz's treeless Plaza Murillo to celebrate the first month of the revolution...
...Paz the victory over tyranny was being consolidated. Students and teachers, ordinary citizens, tin barons and tin miners alike supported the efforts of the revolutionary Junta. TIME Correspondent Frank Norris traveled up from Buenos Aires with returning exiles to report the scene...
Today the citizenry thronged the Plaza Murillo, not to gape at the bullet-shattered facade of the Presidential Palace-nor even to stare at the Junta members working inside the smashed windows of the second floor-but to attend High Mass at the Cathedral next door. La Paz is bewildered and aghast at the violence of the last weekend. There has been an immense religious revival. At last Friday's Mass for the dead of both sides, the Plaza was absolutely packed. Even the men knelt to the Host, a rare phenomenon in Spanish America...