Word: paz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharp rap on the door of the La Paz hotel suite was impossible to ignore, even at 5 on a Sunday morning. Former Bolivian President Hernàn Siles Zuazo, 50, stumbled drowsily out of bed to answer the summons, and there stood half a dozen members of the government's control político police. "You mean you're going to arrest the chief of the revolution?" asked Siles. They were indeed. Two days later, Siles and 33 other, lesser Bolivians were unceremoniously air-expressed to exile in neigh boring Paraguay...
...regime of President Victor Paz Estenssoro accused Siles of plotting to overthrow the government, install himself at the head of a junta and assassinate Paz. Nonsense, retorted Siles from Paraguay. He insisted that no coup had been planned and that the Paz government was badly "confused...
Usually far from confused, Paz is perhaps Latin America's ablest President when it comes to anticipating and disarming trouble before it starts. While there was almost certainly no imminent plot in the works, Siles was clearly a worrisome problem for Bolivia's President...
Friends & Fallout. Once, Paz and Siles were allies, together led the 1952 revolution that toppled the feudal tin-mining aristocracy and installed the National Revolutionary Movement that has ruled Bolivia ever since. Paz was President from 1952 to 1956, then turned over power to Siles for four years before becoming President again in 1960. In the early days, it was more or less a government by committee, no matter who occupied the presidential palace. When Paz decided to run again in last May's election despite a tradition against consecutive terms, he and Siles fell...
Siles accused Paz of personalisimo. At election time, Siles joined Juan Lechín, leftist boss of the tin miners, in a hunger strike, hoping to dramatize his thesis that Paz was becoming a dictator. When that failed, he set out to organize an opposition...