Word: bolivia
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Debray, who had been with the guerrillas for several weeks, claimed that he was on an assignment for a Mexican magazine. He had been in Bolivia twice before on lecture tours, was well known as a confidant of Fidel Castro and the author of a new handbook on guerrilla warfare, Revolution in the Revolution...
Bustos had entered Bolivia on a forged passport, but he claimed he had barged into the guerrilla camp by mistake. He was held for trial...
...Castro's stepped-up aggression. Last week the Organization of American States accused Castro of sending four armed Cuban regulars to the coast of Venezuela last May, the first overt and deliberate military invasion of one Latin American country by another since the Gran Chaco border war between Bolivia and Paraguay more than 30 years...
This song is heard these days in the rugged jungle country of southeastern Bolivia, where it is sung by a band of Castro-style guerrillas who are harassing the eleven-month-old regime of President René Barrientos. Though they number only about 100 men (some say as few as 60), the guerrillas have caused consternation in the Bolivian government and army. At first, Bolivia's army promised a speedy campaign and victory over the guerrillas. But it has found them so tough and elusive that President Barrientos three weeks ago even asked neighboring Argentina to send in some...
...Bolivia is a bleak place that-in its 142 years of independence-has gone through at least as many different governments. With chronically rebellious students and tin miners to keep an eye on, and now guerrillas, Barrientos may sometimes feel that yet another change of government may be looming just ahead...