Word: bolivia
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INFLUENCED by Fidel Castro's successful revolution, Che Guevara went to Bolivia and tried to launch a similar movement from the sparsely populated hinterlands. Too late, Che discovered that the country's peasants were more likely to betray than to befriend guerrilla fighters. Unable to count on aid from the people he was hoping to convert, Che was trapped and later executed by Bolivian soldiers...
...diplomats for six years. Belgium and Austria have expressed interest in establishing diplomatic ties. Marxist Salvador Allende, who is expected to be confirmed as Chile's President this week, has already promised to recognize Mao's regime, and there is speculation that the new leftist regime in Bolivia may follow suit...
...coup that toppled Belaúnde. "We are trying to find for the problems of Peru solutions derived from Peruvian reality." There is evidence too that the Soviets are being wary about writing mortgages on some of the new political experiments. One story has it that last fall, when Bolivia's Ovando seized power, a delegation of leftists journeyed to Buenos Aires to solicit Soviet aid from a senior Russian diplomat. The reply, perhaps apocryphal but entirely plausible, was: "Anyone who wants us to take on responsibility for Bolivia is an enemy of the Soviet Union...
...prospects are that Soviet diplomats will be seeing more such delegations in the future, particularly if Marxist Candidate Salvador Allende takes over in Chile. "The road-as the poet said-is made by walking," a leftist guerrilla noted in Uruguay last week. Chile and Bolivia, the guerrilla added, "will increase the number of walkers. Sooner or later they will harvest success or failure, but inevitably they will find the way toward power and revolution, and that's what really matters." That may not be what Latin America needs but for the next few years it is likely...
ARGENTINA. Increasingly, the country's right-wing junta feels surrounded by sources of political contagion-the terrorist movement in Uruguay, the leftist military junta in Bolivia, and now a Communist threat on the other side of Argentina's rugged Andean frontier. The Argentines have no plans to charge into Chile, but they are keeping in close touch with Peru's generals in an effort to make ready for anything. One military man in Buenos Aires predicts that clashes will break out on the Argentine-Chilean border within 15 months. A former Argentine foreign minister says that...