Word: urriolagoitia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time, the plot was fully hatched; except for the sharp-eared intelligence service of Minister of Government and Justice Alfredo Mollinedo, it might have overthrown elegant, bearded Acting President Mamerto Urriolagoitia before he knew what had hit him. Hearing rumblings of the plot, Mollinedo moved fast. In La Paz, he arrested most of M.N.R.'s underground general staff; he also captured rifles, submachine guns, ammunition, grenades and documents listing the rebel "government" that was to be headed by exiled M.N.R. Chieftain Víctor Paz Estenssoro...
...government quickly drafted all men between 19 and 50, called up four classes of former conscripts. In a radio broadcast Acting President Urriolagoitia thundered: "If necessary, I myself will fight in the streets ..." A force of 2,000 loyalists converged on Cochabamba. Two days later, the city fell at a cost of less than ten casualties, and the government spoke confidently of isolating the rebel stronghold at Santa Cruz...
Visits in Buenos Aires. Since the Army's entire stock of such bombs had been locked in a La Paz arsenal, the government sniffed outside interference. Said President Urriolagoitia darkly: "This rebellion has international roots." In Buenos Aires, the Bolivian ambassador called on Juan Perón's new Foreign Minister, young Hipolito Jesus Paz, four times within twelve hours. How was it, he demanded, that the M.N.R.'s Carmelo Cuellar, thought to be safely out of mischief in Argentina, had turned up at the head of a rebel column...
...Hertzog's more amenable fillin, Acting President Mamerto Urriolagoitia, Patiño suggested that the whole problem could be solved by getting rid of the union leaders. Their banishment followed...
...stay. Hertzog's unhappy answer: "Gentlemen, I appeal to your human feelings to let me go." During the month or two that the 62-year-old President planned to rest in the lower altitudes of northwest Bolivia's yungas (valleys), elegant, easygoing Vice President Mamerto Urriolagoitia would take over at the palace. Many Bolivians feared that Dr. Hertzog's patient might not live to see his return...