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Died. Dr. Octavio Zubizarreta, 68, who as Cuba's Secretary of the Interior under ill-famed President Machado ran the secret police, was blamed for numerous wholesale political assassinations; in bed; in a Havana suburb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...plebiscite, in Bolivia by constitutional assembly; 2) within two months of this approval, representatives of the mediating nations must establish the boundary in the Chaco; and 3) Paraguay and Bolivia must accept it. On the last step, however, the Chaco settlement may stumble. Fortnight ago Paraguayan Politician Dr. Geronimo Zubizarreta, so far sole candidate for the September Presidential election, indicated that as President he would toss out any ruling the Chaco mediation arrived at (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY-BOLIVIA: First Step | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...into such a frenzy that they refused to obey Provisional President Franco's order to retreat from the disputed road, threatened a general revolt unless he withdrew the order. With Colonel Franco's fall expected hourly, the Army began to rally behind rabidly anti-Bolivian General Geronimo Zubizarreta for the presidency. Sanctimoniously the Bolivian Cabinet declared: "We decline any responsibility for possible perturbations created by Paraguay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY-BOLIVIA: Chaco Echoes | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...Spanish clubs demurred. Dr. Ricardo Nunez Portuondo, president of the Cuban Medical Delegation, pleaded in vain. Last week 500 doctors went on strike against the Spanish club clinics. Minister of the Interior Octavio Zubizarreta ordered doctors employed by the Department of Health to man the practically deserted clinics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cuban Strike | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

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