Word: bolivia
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...years after Castro, the place still bustled, its hundreds of bars thronged with noisy knots of people guffawing over the latest rumors, its streets snarled with ill-tempered, horn-honking traffic jams. Today there are hardly any rumors, and the streets are so empty that even impoverished La Paz, Bolivia, teems with traffic by comparison. The armed militiamen and -women once standing guard in truculent excitement before virtually every public building have disappeared. Life has become predictable, its Latin impulse governed by ration books, arbitrary government edicts and complex forms to be filled out in quadruplicate...
...Bolivia's most valuable resource, yet the mines might just as well be in another country for all the prosperity they bring. Since nationalization in 1952, Communist union leaders, backed by a well-armed "workers' militia," have ruled the mines, and no government has dared call a halt to the appalling featherbedding, inefficiency and spiraling wages, which result in losses of more than $6,000,000 annually. No government, that is, except the present military junta headed by Co-Presidents René Barrientos and Alfredo Ovando Candia. Last May the two generals drew up a harsh but workable...
...Alianza-like program to help less-developed neighbors. Mexico's strongly independent President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz paid high compliments to U.S. Alianza efforts in his recent state-of-the-nation speech. The U.S. is pushing hard for social reform in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, all run by authoritarian regimes that are not necessarily throwbacks to the old-line oligarchies...
...chance to join the human race," he said, "there's no hope for democracy. Today we are not thinking of the Latin Americans in terms of throwing them another $2,000,000 just to get them out of our hair." This week Vaughn moves on to Bolivia and Peru, then returns to the U.S. When he gets home, maybe the phone will start ringing at midnight...
...Sheer hyperbole, strictly speaking. La Paz, Bolivia, for instance, is 12,400 ft. above sea level and has more than ten nightclubs...