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Among Che's possessions they found a 30,000-word diary, written in his own hand in Spanish and detailing all his activities from the time he arrived in Bolivia in 1966 almost up to the day of his capture. The government used excerpts from the diary to convict French Agitator Jules Regis Debray for aiding the guerrillas. It also arrested some 20 Bolivians who were mentioned as collaborators. Then, once the political usefulness of the diary had been exhausted, it was put up for sale...
...plain but brave Bolivian soldier, who has just crushed the Castro-Communist intruders, giving thus a breath of relief to the Americas. J. L. COóRDOVA ELENA SALINAS A. J. CALDERON La Paz, Bolivia...
...open up 5,000,000 acres of the country's richest land for colonization, thus doubling the total amount of national acreage under cultivation. Then Belaunde got the idea of extending the road beyond Peru, and persuaded Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay to join in. "We have lost the habit of thinking on a grand scale," he said, "of conceiving works that, like the Panama Canal, change the geography of a continent. Nature is our enemy, and nature can be overcome...
...already opened 275 miles of its portion of the Marginal Highway, and has another 85 miles under way. Paraguay has built a 442-mile link across the Gran Chaco, cutting transportation time from the rich central farming areas to Asuncion from six or eight days to ten hours. Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos has built about one-third of a planned 1,100-mile stretch, renaming one of the small towns along it after Belaunde...
Ballots are secret in this election, but Ritter's support almost surely came from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, and Panama. Marcos Robles, Panama's president, considers the election very important, and has reportedly been making phone calls to his colleagues all over the continent. Broad hints were dropped that if Ritter doesn't get the job, the United States might run into more trouble over the Canal Zone...