Word: bolivia
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...Bolivia was a great test for him. He personally chose to lead the expedition there, determined to prove the validity of his revolutionary theories that had worked so well ten years earlier in Cuba. "The legend of our guerrilla is spreading like seaspray in the wind," Che wrote, "but its true meaning will be lost unless history has a record of what we are attempting to do here." When he reached Bolivia in November 1966, minus his beard and bearing a Uruguayan passport, Che carried a supply of notebooks and diaries to keep such a record. During the next eleven...
...kidnaped and exchanged for five prisoners who were flown to Mexico. Sean M. Holly, a U.S. labor attache in Guatemala City, was kidnaped and ransomed for one political prisoner. U.S. Air Attaché Lieut. Colonel Donald Crowley was kidnaped and ransomed for 20 political prisoners. In La Paz, Bolivia, Newspaper Publisher Alfredo Alexander and his wife were killed by a bomb that was delivered to their house by messenger...
...intercepted Jean-Paul Sartre as he was leaving a mass meeting in Paris three years ago. The meeting had been called to protest Bolivia's jailing of Regis Debray, a French journalist and a friend of Fidel Castro...
Shock Waves. Censorship in all its forms is spreading in South America. In Bolivia last month, the leftist military regime decreed that "press workers'' would henceforth "enjoy the Sunday rest." In fact, the Sunday work suspension snuffed out the Monday morning editions of all four major papers that are hostile to the government. In addition, the government's insistence that newspapers provide space on the editorial page for reporters to "freely express their ideas under their signatures" was actually an attempt to curb antigovernment editorials...
...melodrama that followed Che Guevara's death in October 1967, no role was more bizarre than that of a bit player named Antonio Arguedas, 41, a former Bolivian Interior Minister. By his own account, Arguedas smuggled a copy of Guevara's diary out of Bolivia and into Fidel Castro's hands, then fled his country to avoid arrest. He has been involved in a cat-and-mouse struggle with Bolivian authorities ever since...