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...brief period at the end of January, Bolivia broke the usual silence accorded it by the international press. A sudden decision by the right-wing military government to double the price of basic foodstuffs touched off an uprising by the peasants, who had found it difficult enough to make ends meet under the former price system. They gathered in the main transportation arteries of the country, erected barricades, and threw stones at intervening government troops. Soon their cause was joined by the tin miners, the nation's largest industrial group, who called a two-day wildcat strike to protest...
...first view of La Paz, Bolivia's capital and largest city, approached from the west, is perhaps one of the most spectacular moments in world travel. From the border with Peru the bus jaunts along a stumbly dirt road for three hours through the barren spaces of the altiplano, the 14,000-foot-high plateau that covers the western third of Bolivia. Above the tree line, this gaping wasteland is broken only by the occasional adobe huts and the surrounding protective adobe walls of the Aymara Indians, who have scratched out a living here for countless centuries. Soon the huts...
...story has a catchy beginning: "Ferocious swarms of man-killing bees are buzzing their way toward North America." The second curt paragraph fairly shouts in terror: "They have already smashed their way through Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru." Lest the tension become unbearable, a third paragraph offers relief: "But don't panic. It may take ten to 14 years before the bees hit the U.S." This rather anticlimactic tale could well be a metaphor for the paper that carries it in its first issue, appearing on newsstands this week. The tabloid weekly National Star is arriving with...
...club, quickly rose from their tables to help shove the American into a getaway car. Several days later a photograph was sent to Buenos Aires newspapers by the E.R.P. showing a nervous Samuelson posed in front of a poster of Che Guevara, the Argentine-born guerrilla killed in Bolivia...
...military rule, a new form of political system characterized by a combination of repression, economic development aided by the United States, and urbanization. Uruguay, the site of State of Siege, was a nation with a long history of democracy: the military moved into power there last June. Peru and Bolivia have also been ruled by the new type of general, and Chile in the wake of September's bloody repression of President Allende's government, has fallen under the sway of the gorillas. Venezuela is still technically a democracy, but there have been military rumblings there also...