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During the past fortnight, Juan Bautista Saavedra, Tyrant of Bolivia, was forced to move faster than he chose. Things were slipping...
...first place, a man he had exiled to Chile early in September had the affrontery to return. This man was the eminent South American physician, Jose Gabino Villanueva, President-Elect of Bolivia, who, on the eve of inauguration, refused to do Saavedra's bidding and was therefore promptly declared unelected and, a week later, exiled. No one could guess what hopes had lured Senor Villanueva back to Bolivia, but it was certain that this time Saavedra, taking no chances, would send him under armed guard to an unhealthy part of the country...
Simultaneously the younger members of Saavedra's army became boisterous. They suggested to Saavedra that a suitable candidate for President at the special elections in December would be Senor Hernando Siles, a diplomat. So tense was the situation that Saavedra did an unprecedented thing- he took the suggestion. Senor Siles will be President. And then Saavedra took another suggestion- he withdrew his brother's candidacy for Vice President...
...many suggestions can a Tyrant take and still be Tyrant? And what would Bolivia be without its Saavedra? Thus politics, in the inland country...
...Previous reports of Saavedra and his doings were published in TIME, Sept. 7, Sept...