Word: urriolagoitia
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This time, the plot was fully hatched; except for the sharp-eared intelligence service of Minister of Government and Justice Alfredo Mollinedo, it might have overthrown elegant, bearded Acting President Mamerto Urriolagoitia before he knew what had hit him. 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...
...Hertzog's more amenable fillin, Acting President Mamerto Urriolagoitia, Patiño suggested that the whole problem could be solved by getting rid of the union leaders. Their banishment followed...
...stay. Hertzog's unhappy answer: "Gentlemen, I appeal to your human feelings to let me go." During the month or two that the 62-year-old President planned to rest in the lower altitudes of northwest Bolivia's yungas (valleys), elegant, easygoing Vice President Mamerto Urriolagoitia would take over at the palace. Many Bolivians feared that Dr. Hertzog's patient might not live to see his return...
Parts of South America are still wild & woolly country. One of them is jungly eastern Bolivia, which natives call the Chaco, which Author Duguid calls Green Hell. Before Duguid and his two companions (J. C. Bee-Mason and Mamerto Urriolagoitia), to their knowledge no white men had penetrated that tract since Nuflo de Chavez...
...Urriolagoitia was Bolivian consul general in London but had never been in the eastern wilds of his own country. Bee-Mason was an Arctic cinematographer. Duguid had never been outside Europe. Luckily for the expedition they had not gone very far into the jungle when they ran into Alexander Siemel (TIME, April 13, et ante) whom Duguid calls Tiger-Man because he is a famed jaguar hunter (South Americans call jaguars tigers). Siemel saw them through many a tight place...