Word: saavedras
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...Bolivia. But in Bolivia the change was brought about by a revolution. A military junta seized control of the Government. A convention was called to elect a President. The Republican party headed by the junta expelled its opponents from the convention and chose its own leader Juan Bautista Saavedra President ? really dictator. He promptly exiled his opponents from the country. Early last spring he decided it was safe to risk an election. In order to make the election as safe as possible the Republican party nominated for President Dr. Jose Gabino Villanueva, one of the foremost surgeons of South...
Last week preparations were made to inaugurate Senor Villanueva and "Brother" Saavedra. The retiring President mobilized the army at La Paz, seat of government, for the inauguration ceremonies. At the last minute a hitch occurred. The Saavedras had expected Villanueva to appoint a Republican Cabinet; instead he announced his intention of appointing a fusion or coalition Cabinet. Thereupon President Saavedra decided the election in May had been fraudulent, and that Senor Villanueva was disqualified from holding office. A resolution was introduced into the Legislature to that effect. President Saavedra ordered the inauguration postponed and waited the decision of the Legislature...
...expected, the Legislature declares the May election void, Senator Guzman, President of the Senate, a member of the Saavedra faction, will be President of the country until a new election can be held...
...Pike returns with the verdict that Saavedra does suppress the press, that he does incarcerate his political disputants, that, in short, he is a tyrant; but also that none of these things is regarded as indecent in Bolivia, and that most of his victims await, without rancor, their opportunity to return to Bolivia to do unto Senor Saavedra as he did unto them...
Bolivia is the only South American country without a seaboard. Saavedra, who has been overseas, is regarded by foreigners at the capital as a gracious gentleman, and his unadvanced political methods are the less easily understood...