Word: villarroels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly a fortnight had passed since the U.S. State Department, much criticized and currently enduring a reorganization (see p. 16), prepared a damning allegation that Argentine and Nazi forces inspired the Bolivian revolutionary regime of President-Major Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, Jan. 17). Up to this week, the State Department held its fire. The official explanation: diplomatic communications with 18 Latin American countries were unusually slow...
...Bolivia itself, José Antonio Arze, leader of the leftist PIR (Partido de Izquierda Revolucionario), was still unjailed. Far from instigating a counterrevolution when he returned to La Paz from exile in Mexico, he seemed more interested in joining the Villarroel Government if it met his conditions. They were: assurance of civil liberties; fair elections; and removal of Fascist elements from the Cabinet. Thus housecleaned, the regime might yet meet U.S. requirements. If others were plotting revolt, their movements were well concealed...
...close touch with anti-Villarroel elements are Dr. Luis Fernando Guachalla, the deposed Bolivian Government's Ambassador to the U.S., and Manuel Carrasco, former President of the Bolivian Senate...
...deal with a counterrevolution is to take its principal leaders into the existing Government. The Villarroel regime may invite Arze to join. Whether he would accept is not certain...
...diplomats, this turgid language was as clear as a Hull curse. It meant that: 1) the U.S. would not recognize the revolutionary regime of Bolivia's new President, Major Gualberto Villarroel; 2) the U.S. blamed Argentina and Nazi Germany for putting the Villarroel junta in power; 3) a hemispheric united front was being formed to smash it. An even stronger blast against both Bolivia and Argentina was scheduled for this week...