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Word: villazon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1949-1949
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...employees of the capital's factories and utilities stopped work. The government declared a state of siege (the seventh in two years), called all able-bodied men from 19 to 50 to the colors. An attempt by M.N.R. exiles to seize and paralyze the rail center of Villazon, near the Argentine border, was nipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: 20th Century Riot | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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