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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...
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...
Tyranny was repaid with death. At the end of 96 hours of bloody fighting, the body of President Gualberto Villarroel last week hung from a "lamp post in La Paz's handsome Plaza Murillo. His bemedaled official photograph decorated the sheet that draped his naked body, and one of his military boots hung from under...
...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...
...month and a half ago Argentina abruptly closed the Paraguayan frontier. The reason given: a yellow-fever outbreak in Paraguay. It turned out to be malaria, but Paraguayans got the point, agreed to a customs union with Argentina. Bolivia was already on the hook: the Perón-minded Villarroel government felt strong enough to crack down on the Democratic Front opposition, jail leaders and handcuff the press. Chile, with a long Argentine frontier, read that Perón had come out for a Chile-Argentine customs union, and appointed its Foreign Minister to attend the Strong...