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Gualberto Villarroel, handsome, soldierly President of Bolivia, motored with his family past some hitchhikers, drew up short when a bullet whanged through his car door. Police found the Villarroels unhurt. When the suspected assassins turned out to be workers on a spree, they were released with a practical Latin explanation: "No connection with politics. Just drunks...
During the excitement, the Bolivian Congress met as an Electoral College. After some tense maneuvering, it promoted Provisional President Gualberto Villarroel to legal President. The relation between the election and Hochschild's disappearence, though rumored, did not leak out through tight Bolivian censorship...
...finally recognized Bolivia last week, after six months of niggling delay. The revolutionary Government of President Gualberto Villarroel had long since done all that the State Department had requested. It had rounded up and deported some 80 high-placed Axis agents, had sent German and Jap diplomats home, had purged the Government of Axis sympathizers, had upped the export of tin and tungsten...
...State Department had been deeply concerned about the spreading epidemic of revolts in South America. Too many friendly (if bad) governments were being replaced by military cliques that looked to Argentine for leadership. But the delay in recognizing Gualberto Villarroel's military clique long after it had turned its back on Argentine accomplished nothing but a notable further drain on the sinking reservoir of good will south of the Rio Grande...
When aging (72) Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave in to the Villarroel Government last week, Great Britain and 19 Latin American Governments promptly followed suit, for nearly all of them had been pressing the U.S. for this action for some months. The Argentines, who had happily recognized the Nazi-loaded Villarroel Government from the start, were presumably laughing up their diplomatic sleeves...