NAZI PUTSCH IN BOLIVIA
FIRM ACTION TAKEN BY GOVERNMENT FORMER MINISTER SEIZED (Rec. 9 p.m.) LA PAZ (Bolivia), July 21 A former Minister of Finance, Senor Victor Paz Estenssoro, was arrested at Tarija, in the heart of the Bolivian oilfields, after the abortive Nazi putsch which last night threw the country into a state of siege. The police also arrested four civilian members of the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, which is led by Major Elias Belmonte, Bolivian military attache in Berlin, and a German, a former manager of Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, named Schroth. Four newspapers, two of which are included in Washington’s “black list” were suspended. The proclamation of a state of siege automatically dissolved the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, which the Government describes as a small party formed with the connivance of German residents in La Paz.
The President, Senor Enrique Penaranda, who has taken personal control of cleaning up the situation, advocates full co-operation with the United States in hemisphere defence.
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Southland Times, Issue 24493, 22 July 1941, Page 5
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