Word: estenssoro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hearing rumblings of the plot, Mollinedo moved fast. In La Paz, he arrested most of M.N.R.'s underground general staff; he also captured rifles, submachine guns, ammunition, grenades and documents listing the rebel "government" that was to be headed by exiled M.N.R. Chieftain Víctor Paz Estenssoro...
...still dallying with his old friend Paz Estenssoro, he was carefully concealing it. Having previously packed the M.N.R. leader off to Uruguay, he closed the Bolivian border, ordered his police chief to keep a sharp eye on other Bolivians still in the country, promised to arrest any rebels chased across the border into Argentine territory...
...Bolivian Government of President Gualberto Villarroel, suspected of totalitarian connections and unrecognized except by Argentina, tried to clean itself up last week. Finance Minister Dr. Victor Paz Estenssoro, intellectual leader of the December revolt which put the regime in power (TIME, Jan. 3), announced that the Government had expropriated all Axis firms. The day before, three members of the regime quit...
...improvement was not great. The men who left were suspect, but so were those who replaced them. Two of the new men are members of the MNR (Mommiento National Revolucionario). Still in power is Mastermind Estenssoro, leader of the MNR. Still outside the Cabinet is Jose Antonio Arze, leader of the leftist PIR (Partido de Izquierda Revolucionario) and at present a favorite of the U.S. State Department...
Minister of Finance: Dr. Victor Paz Estenssoro, 36, slender, professorial, head and brains of MNR, whose members call him "el jefe" (the boss...