Word: paz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blew off La Paz last week for the first time since the bloody 1946 revolution in which the capital's citizens hanged their dictator from a lamppost. This time the capital's schoolteachers touched off the explosion by demanding higher pay to offset the government's recent currency devaluation. Within hours, a raging mob was surging through the streets denouncing Conservative President Mamerto Urriolagoitia (pronounced ooreo-la-goytcha...
...building strongpoint, government forces advanced into the northern working-class districts. There the rioters fought stubbornly with small hand grenades made of cement, scrap iron and dynamite, apparently brought from the tin mines. Finally the army, firing a few mortar shells, drove the rioters into the hills rimming La Paz...