Word: villarroel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spontaneous had been last month's uprising, that not until hours after President Gualberto Villarroel's body swung from its lamppost had revolutionists gathered to form a representative junta. To the junta and to outsiders from Buenos Aires to Washington, the victory parade was one bit of evidence among many that both revolution and junta had popular support. But no one, either in Bolivia or abroad, seemed to know in what direction the new Government would...
...Threat. Many Bolivian regimes (Villarroel's was an exception) have been in the pay of the tin barons. Until Bolivia's economy is broadened or until cheaper Malayan production knocks high-cost Bolivian tin for a loop, tin rule will be a threat...
Tossed into the Bolivian broth last fortnight was white-haired, sexagenarian Judge Tomás Monje Gutierrez, a political moderate who took over as President of the junta. From a window of the presidential palace that overlooked the Villarroel lamppost, he delivered his inaugural speech. Said he, "Whenever you people get tired of me, let me know so that I can go away." Apparently he meant what he said. Last week the junta decreed national elections next January for a permanent President and congress...
Bolivians had cut down from a La Paz lamppost the blood-smeared body of President Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, July 29). But in Buenos Aires the Bolivian coup had loosed anti-Peron wisecracks. One of them: "I'm waiting for L-day"-"What's that?"-"Lamppost day." And not only wisecracks. In the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, oppositionist Deputy Ernesto San Martino predicted: "The masses never forgive spurious politicians nor false leaders nor a clay idol...
...public resentment ran higher than ever. The Workers' Federation called a general strike. The students broke into an arsenal. Up & down La Paz's hilly, cobblestoned streets they fought, establishing resistance points behind thick adobe walls. Sharpshooters who peppered the palace cut off Villarroel's escape. On Sunday, the revolutionists broke in. A few minutes later Villarroel, an Army major and Chaco war veteran, lay dead. His dictatorial regime, which began with a military coup in December 1943, had passed into Bolivia's troubled history...