Word: paz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...runs Bolivia. During the next decade he was exiled twice by anti-M.N.R. governments, fled the country twice more to escape imprisonment. In 1951 he slipped back into Bolivia from exile to direct the campaign that brought a plurality that year to exiled M.N.R. Presidential Candidate Victor Paz Estenssoro. When the army nullified the election. Siles led a workers' uprising, defeated the military in three days of fierce civil warfare...
Falange Presidential Candidate Oscar Unzaga de la Vega charged that President Victor Paz Estenssoro's National Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.) had rigged election lists, confiscated Falange ballots and hindered the Falange campaign. Retorted the M.N.R. weekly Combate: Unzaga gave up simply because he realized he could not win. To be on the safe side, the government moved 3,000 militiamen into La Paz before election day, just in case the opposition tried to turn default into revolt...
...Full amnesty is hereby given to all citizens indicted, charged, convicted, detained, confined or exiled for political reasons, without any exceptions," said the single-sentence decree signed by President Victor Paz Estenssoro one day last week. At 2 o'clock the next morning, the iron gates of San Pedro jail in La Paz creaked open, and 300 political prisoners jostled their way out into the darkness, some carrying little violins and chess sets that they had carved with penknives during confinements of as long as three years. The most notable among the liberated men: Gustavo Stumpf, tall, blond leader...
...Paz Estenssoro, taking power in a leftist revolution in 1952, nationalized the big tin mines and energetically pushed the state oil monopoly, formed in 1937 after an earlier government had forced out Standard Oil Co. of N.J. On the face of it, these moves made the chance of new foreign oil investment in Bolivia look dim indeed. Nonetheless, Paz Estenssoro made a hard-boiled decision that Bolivia needed foreign capital, and in 1955 enacted a liberal code for oil operators from abroad. Last week Pittsburgh's Gulf Oil Corp., first big operator to move in, signed a 40-year...
Gulf's operation at Kuwait on the Persian Gulf makes it No. 2 (after Jersey Standard) among U.S. oil companies in world production. Company chiefs evidently concluded that the 1952 tin nationalization was a political necessity, and that Paz Estenssoro is now able to get on realistically with the development of the country. The exploration area granted to Gulf is-ironically enough-part of Jersey Standard's old concession...