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...military airport, and Army General Alfredo Ovando escorted Air Force General René Barrientos to the steps of a waiting C-54. Moments later, Barrientos was on his way to Switzerland. Only a few days before, Barrientos and Ovando had been co-Presidents of Bolivia's 14-month-old military junta. Now, there was only Ovando...
...Bolivia, where things are seldom what they seem, the little tableau was actually normal democratic process. The junta had called presidential elections for July 3. And Barrientos, the country's leading candidate, was only sticking to the constitution, which provides that a candidate must resign any public office he holds six months before the balloting. To rest up and get in shape for the long campaign ahead, Barrientos decided to spend a few weeks abroad...
Early last year, when Communist union leaders resisted his reforms for Bolivia's notoriously inefficient tin mines, Barrientos slapped the mines under military control, ordered troops into troubled areas and exiled 200 union leaders, including Union Boss Juan Lechin. After a bloody series of battles that left 102 dead and 350 wounded, the miners finally gave in. Helped along by a high tin market, the mines moved from under a $3,000,000 deficit in the first five months of last year to a net year-end profit of some $2,000,000-their first year in the black...
Down By a Third. Belaúnde's government is well aware of the dangers involved in wholesale land giveaways. Mexico and Bolivia both experienced sharp drops in agricultural production when they went in for helter-skelter land reform; the Cuban economy is still reeling from Fidel Castro's mismanagement of the sugar lands. In Peru's own case, an efficient, 511,500-acre ranch near the Cerro lands was purchased two years ago by government officials, who parceled out most of it among 14 land-hungry Indian communities. Since then, 100,000 of the ranch...
...also cite antique farming methods. In Venezuela, primitive farms produce an average of two bushels of corn per acre, compared with 67 bushels on modern U.S. farms. Traditionally, holders of large estates do not cultivate more than necessary to earn an income suitable to their social status. But, as Bolivia and Mexico have discovered, land-reform programs that carve up productive estates into family-sized plots for often unskilled peasants generally lead to sharp drops in food output...