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	Paz Estenssoro, Victor. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Paz was reelected president in 1960, at which time he was faced with a deteriorating economy and a growing rift within the MNR.
		He aroused considerable opposition by amending the constitution to permit his reelection in 1964, and although he was reelected, both the right and the left factions bolted his party.
		In Nov., 1964, Paz was ousted by a military coup.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pa/PazEsten.html (302 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Bolivia
		Paz was re-elected in 1960 and in the following year pressed for the adoption of a new constitution that extended the economic authority of the government and permitted the re-election of an incumbent president.
		Paz was re-elected in 1964, but many of his earlier supporters left him, charging that the MNR was less reformist and more oppressive than it purported to be.
		Paz was overthrown in November 1964 in the aftermath of an uprising by miners.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563800_8/Bolivia.html (1383 words)

	1950, April 10. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		A revolt in La Paz led by students, workers, and the national police, and bolstered by tin miners from the countryside, overthrew the junta of Gen. Balliván after three days of bloody fighting.
		Paz Estenssoro, MNR leader, was sworn in as president on April 16 and began a series of major reforms.
		Victor Paz Estenssoro succeeded Siles Suazo as president.
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	Bolivia - GOVERNMENT
		Paz Estenssoro had in fact seized on parts of the program pushed by Banzer and the ADN during the electoral campaign.
		Paz Estenssoro used this control to sanction the state of siege and defeat all attempts of the left to censure the NPE.
		During the Paz Estenssoro government, United States policy toward Bolivia was split between congressional efforts to enforce the 1985 Foreign Assistance Act, limiting aid to countries that engaged in drug trafficking, and the Reagan administration's stated objective of helping consolidate and strengthen democratic institutions in Latin America.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/bolivia/GOVERNMENT.html (18805 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Bolivia
		The territory of present-day Bolivia was conquered in 1538 by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Pizarro, younger brother of the Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro, who subdued Peru, heart of the Inca Empire.
		Within the next 40 years, Spanish settlements were formed at Chuquisaca (present-day Sucre), Potosí, La Paz, and Cochabamba, and numerous silver mines, in which the Native American population was compelled to work, were opened.
		For some 200 years the area, known as the Audiencia of Charcas, was one of the most prosperous and populous centres in the Spanish colonies; Potosí, the main source of silver for the Spanish Empire, may have been the largest city in the western hemisphere.
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	TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents
		Under President Victor Paz Estenssoro, the MNR introduced universal adult suffrage, carried out a sweeping land reform, promoted rural education, and nationalized the country's largest tin mines.
		Paz Zamora was a moderate, center-left president whose political pragmatism in office outweighed his Marxist origins.
		Paz Zamora also took a fairly hard line against domestic terrorism, a 1990 attack on terrorists of the Nestor Paz Zamora Committee and authorizing the 1992 crackdown on the Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK).
	www.traveldocs.com /bo/history.htm (1688 words)

	Ex-Bolivian president, Victor Paz Estenssoro, dies at age 93: 6/8/01
		Doctors said Paz Estenssoro died as a result of complications of the amputation.
		Paz Estenssoro was president of Bolivia longer than anyone else, governing from 1952-56, 1960-64, 1964-65 and 1985-89.
		After leaving office, Paz Estenssoro retired to his 1907 birthplace of Tarija, where the operation was performed.
	www.s-t.com /daily/06-01/06-08-01/a12wn059.htm (278 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bolivia : History : Twentieth-Century Bolivia, South America (South American Political Geography) - ...
		In the 1951 presidential elections Victor Paz Estenssoro, the MNR candidate, won a majority of the votes, but was prevented from taking office by a military junta.
		In 1956 the MNR candidate, HernAn Siles Zuazo won the presidential election, and in 1960 the MNR further consolidated its power with the reelection of Victor Paz Estenssoro.
		Jaime Paz Zamora succeeded Paz Estenssoro as president in 1989.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bolivia-history-twentieth-century-bolivia.html (1111 words)

	Victor Paz Estenssoro -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Bolivian statesman Victor Paz Estenssoro was a leader of the left-wing Bolivian political party National Revolutionary Movement (MNR).
		Victor Paz Estenssoro was born in Tarija, Bolivia, …
		The most important leader of the MNR, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, was president of Bolivia in 1952–56 and instituted the most revolutionary part of the party's program.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9341484?tocId=9341484 (689 words)

	Background Notes Archive - Western Hemisphere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In four years, Paz Estenssoro's administration achieved an economic and social stability that remains the envy of Bolivia's neighbors.
		Paz Zamora's center-left MIR assumed the presidency and half the ministries.
		Paz Zamora took a fairly hard line against domestic terrorism, personally ordering the December 1990 attack on terrorists of the Nestor Paz Zamora Committee (CNP--named after his brother who died in the 1970 Teoponte insurgency) and authorizing the early 1992 crackdown against the Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK).
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /erc/bgnotes/wha/bolivia9411.html (3354 words)

	Bolivia Country Guide - History and Government - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Much of the credit is due to President Victor Paz Estenssoro — the grand old man of Bolivian politics had held the presidency between 1952—56 and 1960—64.
		By the time Paz Estenssoro ceded office to Jaime Paz Zamora in August 1989, rampant hyper-inflation (an estimated 14,000 per cent in 1985) had been dramatically cut after initial unrest over the government’s strict austerity programme.
		Paz Estenssoro had been the candidate of one of Bolivia’s five main political parties, the Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario (MNR).
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	Background Notes: Bolivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		However, in the congressional run-off, the MIR sided with MNR, and Paz Estenssoro was chosen for a fourth term as president.
		Paz Zamora has been a moderate president who, despite his Marxist origins and his self-proclaimed "leftist nationalism," has learned from experience that pragmatic approaches to problems are those most likely to bring solutions.
		Paz has taken a hard line against domestic terrorism, personally ordering the December 1990 attack on terrorists of the Nestor Paz Zamora Committee (named after his brother who died in the 1970 Teoponte insurgency).
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /erc/bgnotes/wha/bolivia9109.html (3370 words)

	Victor Paz Estenssoro Biography / Biography of Victor Paz Estenssoro Biography
		Victor Paz Estenssoro (born 1907) was a reformer, political thinker, and president of Bolivia.
		Victor Paz was born to a middle-class family of mixed Spanish and Indian blood in the small and isolated northeast town of Tarija in 1907.
		Paz worked in the government as a senior finance official from 1932 to 1933.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-victor-paz-estenssoro (268 words)

	ECONOMIC HISTORY OF BOLIVIA
		Paz Estenssoro returned to the presidency in 1960 and he continued the policies of Siles Zuazo.
		Paz was expected to take gradual approach to slowing inflation but instead he contacted Banzer's financial advisors and had them implement Banzer's program under the name of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1985.
		Paz Estenssoro reduced employment in the government mining corporation by 75 percent and broke the power of the tin miners union.
	www2.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/bolivia.htm (3046 words)

	AllRefer.com - Victor Paz Estenssoro (Bolivian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Victor Paz Estenssoro[vEktOr´ pAs AstAnsO´rO] Pronunciation Key, 1907–2001, president of Bolivia (1952–56, 1960–64, 1985–89).
		An attorney and economist born into a land-owning family, he was a founder (1941) of the moderate leftist National Revolutionary Movement (MNR).
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	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/PazEsten.html (377 words)

	Bolivia The Rise of New Political Groups - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		It was founded in 1941 by a small group of intellectual dissidents from the middle and upper classes and represented persons from a wide range of political persuasions who were united by their discontent with the status quo.
		Among its leaders were Víctor Paz Estenssoro, a professor of economics; Hernán Siles Zuazo, the son of former President Siles Reyes; and several influential writers.
		Paz Estenssoro, who served as minister of finance, hoped to get popular support with a budget that emphasized social spending over economic development.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/bolivia/bolivia_history_the_rise_of_new_political_groups.html (791 words)

	Bolivia History & Bolivia Culture \| iExplore
		Domestically, Bolivia has entered an unprecedented era of political stability, ending a record of military coups and recurrent internal strife that was little short of ludicrous – there were 192 coups in the 156 years from independence to 1981; an average of one every 10 months.
		Much of the credit is due to President Victor Paz Estenssoro – the grand old man of Bolivian politics who had held the presidency between 1952–56 and 1960–64.
		By the time Paz Estenssoro ceded office to Jaime Paz Zamora in August 1989, rampant hyper-inflation (an estimated 14,000 per cent in 1985) had been dramatically cut after initial unrest over the government’s strict austerity program.
	igougo.iexplore.com /dmap/Bolivia/History (930 words)

	Bolivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Villarroel managed to alienate everyone and in one savage outburst in La Paz he was overthrown and hung from a lamppost near the presidential palace.
		The MNR mobilized all popular forces and in a short civil war in which the army was practically destroyed it came to power in 1952 under the leadership of Victor Paz Estenssoro.
		Although La Paz is the effective capital, Sucre is considered the constitutional capital and is the seat of the Bolivian supreme court as well as of the national university.
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /b/bolivia.html (1407 words)

	Bolivians Mourn Former President
		Four-time president Paz Estenssoro, whose party was the driving force behind the 1952 revolution that launched agrarian reform,
		Paz Estenssoro died of a heart attack following surgery to amputate his right leg due to a blood clot.
		Paz Estenssoro was Bolivia's longest-serving president, governing from 1952 -56, 1960 -65 and 1985/89.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /bolivia/paz-estenssoro.htm (397 words)

	GeographyIQ - World Atlas - South America - Bolivia - Historical Highlights
		He relied heavily on successful entrepreneurs-turned-politicians like himself and on fellow veterans of the Paz Estenssoro administration (during which Sanchez de Lozada was Minister for Planning).
		The most dramatic change undertaken by the Sanchez de Lozada government was the 'capitalization' program, under which investors, typically foreign, acquired 50% ownership and management control of public enterprises, such as the state oil corporation, telecommunications system, airlines, railroads, and electric utilities in return for agreed upon capital investments.
		A July agreement between the MNR and the fourth-place MIR, which had again been led in the election by former president Paz Zamora, virtually ensured the election of Sanchez de Lozada in the congressional run-off, and on August 6 he was sworn in for the second time.
	www.geographyiq.com /countries/bl/Bolivia_history_summary.htm (2071 words)

	Victor
		Victor is an English word which means “Winner.” It ultimately comes from Latin.
		Victor was popular among early Christians, where it referred to Christ’s victory over death.
		It war relatively rare in the Middle Ages, but was revived in England in the 19th century, due to Queen Victoria.
	www.geocities.com /edgarbook/names/v/victor.html (94 words)

	Paz, (Estenssoro) Victor
		His regime extended the vote to Indians, nationalized the country's largest tin mines, embarked on a programme of agrarian reform, and brought inflation under control.
		After holding a number of financial posts, Paz entered politics in the 1930s, was elected to the chamber of deputies in 1940, and founded the MNR in 1942.
		Following an indecisive presidential contest in 1989, Paz was replaced by Jaime Paz Zamora of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR).
	www.curantbum.org.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0023637.html (224 words)

	Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (Bolivia) Collection
		At the beginning of the 1980s the MNR was deeply factionalized between a left tendency led by Hernán Siles Zuazo and a more conservative tendency led by Paz Estenssoro.
		Besides the CESAME microfilmed the printed speeches of Victor Paz Estenssoro 1953-1989, copies of periodicals 1954-1996 and press clippings 1948-1992.
		Los auténticos se dirigen a la nación, acusación contra Victor Paz Estenssoro, Junio de 1961, y articulos de prensa.
	www.iisg.nl /archives/en/files/m/10824120full.php (1128 words)

	La Paz -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Situated on La Paz Bay of the Gulf of California, it is a popular resort and the largest urban centre in the state.
		The bay was discovered by the Spanish in 1596; the town was established in the early 1800s and served as the capital of Baja California (1828–87).
		La Paz, which lies between 10,650 and 13,250 feet (3,250 and 4,100 metres) above sea level, is the world's highest national capital.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9369735?tocId=9369735 (958 words)

	Victor Berger -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Elected again in 1918, he was denied his seat after being convicted under the Espionage Act for opposing U.S. participation in World War I. His conviction was overturned, and he again served in the House (1923–29) and succeeded Debs as Socialist Party chairman (1927–29).
		The great French novelist and poet Victor Hugo created two of the most famous characters in literature—Jean Valjean, the ex-convict hero of ‘Les Misérables', and the hunchback Quasimodo in ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame'.
		Known for the vast range and immense quantity of his output, Hugo was able during much of his long life to write as many as 100 lines of verse...
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9357071?tocId=9357071 (655 words)

	Democracy in the Andes
		Soon Victor Paz Estenssoro, leader of the National Revolutionary Movement (M. R.), returned from six years of exile and assumed the Presidency.
		Almost his first official act was the announcement that he would appoint a commission to prepare for nationalization of the tin mines owned by the Patiño, Hochschild, and Aramayo groups, the "Big Three." Attention was thus focused at once on the question of tin, which is in fact the key to recent developments in Bolivia.
		The M. participated in the coalition government of President Gualberto Villarroel, which was established in December, 1934, by a military coup, and Paz Estenssoro served as Minister of Finance.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19520802/rosenberg (1647 words)

	Wide Angle. Coca and the Congressman. Photo Essay \| PBS
		Pictured here in 1961, Victor Paz Estenssoro, a founder of the National Revolutionary Movement (MNR), was elected MNR president in 1951, while in exile in Argentina.
		Political instability in the wake of Bolivia's defeat to Paraguay in the Chaco War (1932-35) culminated in the 1952 rebellion led by the MNR, backed by the power of the nation's tin miners.
		Paz returned and nationalized Bolivia's mines, granted civil rights and suffrage to indigenous Bolivians, and instigated agrarian reform as well as other social measures.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/wideangle/shows/cocaleros/photo5.html (125 words)

	Victor Paz Estenssoro
		Victor Paz Estenssoro - Victor Paz Estenssoro Age: 93 politician who served as president of Bolivia three times...
		Paz Estenssoro, Victor (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
		Paz, (Estenssoro) Victor (1907- ;) (The Hutchinson Dictionary of World History)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0837950.html (339 words)

	Blog from Bolivia: A Valuable Look Back at Bolivian History
		The issue at the heart of the uprisings was the demand for nationalizing the country's largest industry, tin mining and export.
		The government falls and Victor Paz Estenssoro, a former national Finance Minister living in exile in returns to take over the presidency.
		On October 31, 1952, MNR President Victor Paz Estenssoro flew to the Maria Barzola Field on the barren pampa between the Catavi mill and the mining camps of Siglo XX where a decade before army troops had killed scores of people when they fired on a mass of advancing demonstrators.
	www.democracyctr.org /blog/2005/07/valuable-look-back-at-bolivian-history.html (791 words)

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