Word: zuazo
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...historic, all-embracing economic and political revolution. M.N.R. nationalized the major industry, tin mining, confiscating the properties of the powerful tin barons. It revamped land tenure, giving indentured farm hands plots of their own -"like Lincoln's freeing the slaves," says President Hernan Siles Zuazo...
Standing beneath the oil portraits of Bolivia's greatest heroes of the past, a man who is himself an authentic hero of Bolivia today will receive this week the gold medallion and green-red-yellow sash of the presidency. Hernan Siles Zuazo, 42, is following in his father's steps: 30 years ago, Hernando Siles stood in the same spot in the Chamber of Deputies to receive the presidential insignia...
...rush from the airport to the final reception for the visiting Argentine. Next day Aramburu sped off to Uruguay for a tumultuous one-day visit before returning to Buenos Aires-and Kubitschek settled down to await the arrival a few hours later of Bolivia's Hernan Siles Zuazo...
Even before the voters headed for the polls this week, it was a sure thing that Government Candidate Hernán Siles Zuazo would be elected as Bolivia's new President. Reason: three days before the balloting, his only opposition, the Socialist Falange Party, withdrew all its candidates...
...revolt in 1952, has two main factions: 1) moderate leftists, 2) Trotskyite doctrinaires. The Trotskyites, led by Juan Lechin, were kept in line by President Victor Paz Estenssoro and Foreign Minister Guevara, both moderates. Two weeks ago the M.N.R., in convention, chose another moderate, Vice President Hernan Siles Zuazo, as the party's candidate for the forthcoming presidential elections. Then, as the convention went on, Guevara and Lechin began trading verbal blows from the floor...