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TO stand for reelection. After q
few skirmishes Vasquez was forced
out of office, being succeeded tenn
pOrarily by General Urena. Elec-
tiOns were held on May 16 and Gen.
Rafael Trujillo was chosen presi-
dent and inaugurated three months
later.
Bolivia was next on the list.
There DR.. fernando Siles tried,
like Vasquez, to perpetuate his rule
and was driven from Office in May
by the insurgents. He was per-
mitted to take refuge in Chile, and
his much hated right hand man,
Gen. Hans Kundt of Prussia, fled
back to his German home. A mill
tary junta took over the govern
ment, its chief being Gen. Carlos
BlancO Gallindo.
Peru followed suit in August. The
officers of the army led a movement
against President Augusta b.
Leguia who had held the Office for
more than ten years and cOnsid-
cred himself almost irremOvable.
He was forced to resign, turning
over his powers to military junta,
and later Lieut.. Col. Luis NJ. San
chez Cerro was made provisional
president. Leguia had been recOg-
nized as an efficient business presi-
dent and Peru made great material
strides during his regime, but the
revOlutiOnists accused him of de
NAL of civil liberties" and also of
nepotism and the sale Of cOnces-
sions. He was imprisoned to await
trial.
Late in August President Hipo-
Ito IrigOyen of Argentina was
warned by his minister of justice
that a revolution might break out
Immediately. A few days later the
prediction was fulfilled, the high
army and navy officers leading their
commands in a revolt that speedily
Ousted the aged chief executive,
who was seriously i'll. Only in
BuenOs Aires was there any pOpu
lar opposition to the revolution, and
this. was soon quelled with some
bloodshed. Gen. Jose Francisco
Uriburu, chief of the insurgents, be-
came the provisional president on
September 6. IrigOyen for several
years had enjoyed great personal
popularity in Argentina, was presi-
dent from 1916 to 1922 and was
elected again in 1923. But he had
become senile and sick and lost his
hold on the people.
Vargas Rules Brazil.
Brazil's revolution broke out
early in October and was in a way
a war between the states, the lead
er of each striving to seize the cen
tral government. The term of Pres
ident Washington Luis was soon to
expire, but his favored candidate,
DR.. Julio Prestes, president of the
state of Sac PaulO, had been elect
ed. allegedly by fraud. The defeat
ed liberal candidate, Dr. GetuliO
Vargas, former president of the
state of Rio Grande do Sui, started
a revolt to prevent the Inaugural
tiOn of PreStes, and the movement
spread to state after state, all the
insurgent armies cOnverging on Rio
de Janeiro, the national capital.
The government resisted stubborn
ly, but considerable parts of the
army and navy deserted 1t and
after a few weeks of bloody fight
ing Luis was ousted. The members
of the junta that took over the gov
ernment at once began quarreling
and scheming, but Vargas promptly
came up from the south with
large force of gaucho soldiers and
his authority was recognized. He
was installed as provisional presi-
dent on November 8.
Pascual Ortiz Rubio was inaugu-
rated as president Of Mexico on
February 5 and selected a strong
cabinet under whose rule the coun-
try promises to prosper. Especial
attention is being paid to reorgani-
zation of agriculture and to edu-
cation.