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...thousand feet above sea level, in La Paz, "Highest Capital in the World," President Hernando Siles of Bolivia was last week insulted...
Four venturies unroll to provide a political pantomine of the moment. Spain has asked the Government of Mexico for the bones of Hernando Cortex. The conqueror of Peru and Mexico, arch-slave driver, arch-adventurer, first buried near Seville, was removed later, according to a wish he had expressed, across the Atlantic. He was laid near the scenes of his crassest cruelty; and has lain there until history and romance have bleached his fame, torn off the invincible armor, and have feigned, at least, to see "stout Cortez", "silent, upon a peak in Darien...
Simultaneously the younger members of Saavedra's army became boisterous. They suggested to Saavedra that a suitable candidate for President at the special elections in December would be Senor Hernando Siles, a diplomat. So tense was the situation that Saavedra did an unprecedented thing- he took the suggestion. Senor Siles will be President. And then Saavedra took another suggestion- he withdrew his brother's candidacy for Vice President...
...stands upon a site formerly occupied successively by the residences of Montezuma and Hernando Cortez...