Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Company Town. Bolivians call their country a company town. Tin mining supplies 70-90% of Bolivian economy. The 65,000 ragged, sickly miners average about 60? a day, live on the edge of starvation. In December 1943, a revolt of social-minded intellectuals allied with young Army officers attacked tin-company control by driving President Enrique Peñaranda into exile. The people of La Paz ran cheering through the streets, wrecked the office of Aramayo Co., stoned the U.S. Embassy...
...protest against schedules requiring alternate twelve-and four-hour days caused the strike. But the peremptory strike and the Government's peremptory action was a gaudy symptom of a serious condition. Labor unrest was growing in Britain, workers in many regions and industries were in revolt against their own leaders. And the Government was getting tough. Last week it put into effect a regulation providing imprisonment up to five years, fines of $2,000 for persons convicted of fomenting strikes...
Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was sunbathing when the revolt began. But he was not caught entirely off guard. His pervasive Gestapo had jailed opposition leaders and other citizens who objected a few weeks ago when he prolonged his tenure until 1949 and tightened his already arbitrary rule...
...local office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs). Then the rebels fled, or were killed or captured. Their airplanes ran out of gas or flew off to Honduras. Colonel Tito Calvo was reportedly captured and shot. Dr. Arturo Romero, Paris trained skin specialist and civilian leader of the revolt, may have found sanctuary in the Mexican Embassy...
...Blood. President Martínez is a mystic who came to power in 1931. He first won election as Vice President, then arranged an army revolt, kicked out the President and took over the country. A dark and slender Indian who calls himself a theosophist, he used to proclaim: "The invisible legions follow me." After twelve years of his rule, his countrymen are ready to believe...