Word: zuazo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walking a tightrope between his truculent tin miners and annoyed U.S. officials, Bolivia's President Hernán Siles Zuazo squeaked through still another crisis last week. He not only ended a 13-day strike, but also persuaded the U.S. to resume its financial help...
President Hernan Siles Zuazo has shown more courage and determination than most observers close to the scene would have expected two or three years ago. However, the real power is in the hands of the armed and Communist-led mineworkers unions who will not permit the steps necessary to economic recovery. U.S. aid policy has, for the past six years, been strengthening their hand...
...Imperialism's Vile Claw." The day Bolivia's 670 copies of TIME arrived by air, they were taken by special order straight to the palace of President Hernán Siles Zuazo, whose ambassador in Peru, getting the magazine a day earlier, had alerted him. Siles made the story the topic of a six-hour Cabinet session, then issued a statement blasting the remark as "damaging to the national honor" and "absolutely inadmissable." The statement gave the Bolivian public to understand that the remark had been put forth as a serious proposal...
Response to the article (the quotation about "abolishing Bolivia" appeared only in the local Latin American edition) was swift and violent: La Paz got annoyed, students got riled up, President Hernan Siles Zuazo (in the drab, grey palace where he is guarded constantly by an unmanned machine gun) got worried, 10,000 copies of Time got burned, the American embassy got attacked. Summoned from Secretary Dulles' cloud chamber at Walter Reed Army Hospital, temporarisecretary Chris Herter, a genially proper Bostonian, expressed hope that "a magazine would not be permitted to disturb the traditionally good relations that have existed between...
...face. "We don't have a damn thing to show for it," he said. "We're wasting money." Up in the clouds of La Paz (alt. 11,900 ft.), inside the drab, grey palace where he is guarded constantly by a manned machine gun, Hernan Siles Zuazo. 44, Bolivia's President, admitted: "The situation is critical and explosive...