Word: prada
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Godoy, 59, head of the four-man military junta that took over Peru after inconclusive elections last year, sat stiffly in the ornate Salón Blanco of Lima's presidential palace listening to the complaints of two fellow junta members, Air Force Major General Pedro Vargas Prada and Vice Admiral Francisco Torres Matos. The midnight callers gave him an ultimatum: resign or be driven out. Replied Pérez Godoy: "I refuse to leave. It is too late now to continue this conversation. I am going to retire...
...increase in the budget and decreed new taxes to pay for it, including a $1-a-ton levy on anchovies that provoked a strike and threatened to close down the thriving fishmeal industry. And when he refused to approve the construction of a new hospital for Vargas Prada's air force and six new ships for Torres Matos' national steamship line, the other junta members turned...
...four Presidents," headed by a cavalry general, Manuel Perez Godoy, 59, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and including General Nicolas Lindley López, 53, commander of Peru's army; Vice Admiral Juan Francisco Torres Matos, 56, boss of the navy; and General Pedro Vargas Prada, 49, chief of the air force. They struck only four months after a similar putsch in Argentina, with the military in both cases ending democracy because they did not like the outcome of free elections...