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...Latin American Presidents ever traveled their constituencies quite as thoroughly or as constantly as René Barrientos Ortuño of Bolivia. Barrientos chose this peripatetic presidency, which carried him even into isolated outposts, because he was a man of action; an ex-air-force officer, he infinitely preferred an airplane cockpit to his desk at Quemado Palace...
...there be any meaningful comparison, in magnitude and criminality, between the unlawful acts committed by the rebels in the ghettoes, on the campuses, on the city streets on the one side, and the deeds perpetrated by the forces of order in Vietnam, in Bolivia, in Indonesia, in Guatemala, on the other? Can one meaningfully call it an offense when demonstrators disrupt the business of the university, the draft board, the supermarket, the flow of traffic, to protest against the far more efficient disruption of the business of life of untold numbers of human beings by the armed forces...
...abrupt left face in their foreign policy. In the past four months, Lima's military regime has established diplomatic or commercial relations with Rumania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Two weeks ago, the Peruvians agreed to exchange ambassadors with the Soviet Union, leaving only three South American countries (Bolivia, Paraguay and Venezuela) that do not have diplomatic ties with Russia...
...promises of economic aid and help in running Peru's oil industry. It is an open question exactly how much aid the Soviets could render, but their apparent willingness to help Peru has spurred Ecuador to invite the Soviet mission to drop by for talks and has caused Bolivia to take a more active interest in Soviet offers...
...Dumb. Others besides campesinos have experienced this unique presidential abrazo. Tin exports account for 78% of all Bolivia's foreign exchange, and tin miners are thus a potent group that strikes frequently. During one protest against Barrientos in 1967, the President went down into the mines to confront them. An angry miner held out a dynamite stick and, to scare the President, threatened to blow the assemblage higher than Bolivia's Andean Altiplano. Barrientos grabbed the stick, held it out to be lit and called the miner's bluff. Last year Barrientos took charge in the jungle...