Word: pereda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditionally turbulent Bolivia, where there has never been an untainted election, the results of yet another crooked one led last week to a sudden coup. Juan Pereda Asbún, 47, an air force general, led his right-wing military followers in seizing key buildings in the city of Santa Cruz. Reason: an electoral court had thrown out the results of the July 9 presidential balloting, the country's first election since 1966, which had established Pereda as the apparent winner. Bolivia's military leaders, headed by General Hugo Bánzer Suárez, 52, declared...
...Pereda had been the armed forces' preferred candidate for President. The difficulty with the election was that he turned out to be the choice on entirely too many ballots. The electoral court noted that there were 49,412 more votes cast than there were registered Bolivian voters. Pereda had been credited with 50.13% of the total vote when the counting stopped, less than two-thirds completed...
There are also first-rate representative pieces by Murillo, Sanchez Coello and Antonio Pereda...