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...specifically a blockade to prevent further gunrunning. But the most that can be hoped for is a two-thirds OAS vote for an economic embargo to cut off Castro's remaining trade ($9,000,000 annually) with Latin American nations. The OAS may also recommend that Mexico, Chile, Bolivia and Uruguay complete Castro's diplomatic isolation by breaking their ties with Havana. When the final vote comes up, Mexico and Chile will probably abstain, and Uruguay and Bolivia are still question marks...
...Ministers are receptive to the advice, partly because many of them have a much finer appreciation of the nuances of economics than political leaders used to have. Several economists have risen to head governments, including West Germany's Ludwig Erhard, Portugal's António Salazar and Bolivia's Victor Paz Estenssoro. Others, such as Britain's Harold Wilson, are hopefully planning their own takeover...
...grey clouds of South American winter hung low over La Paz as the blue, bulletproof Cadillac pulled up to the newly constructed grade school. Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro stepped out, strode into the crowded schoolyard and took his place in line. "We are here to vote," he said simply. After a 25-minute wait, Paz dropped his pink ballot into the box, dipped a finger into a cup of red ink to prove he had voted, then drove off to attend to other affairs of state...
...went last week throughout Bolivia. In calm, peaceful balloting, the Andean nation's voters turned out to elect Paz to his second straight term and his third since the 1952 revolution that toppled the country's feudal tinmining aristocracy. All threats of anti-Paz demonstrations, violent strikes, even hints of an assassination attempt, proved empty. Early returns gave Paz 677,000 votes, a clear majority of the country's estimated 900,000 eligible voters and more than enough to secure his mandate for another term...
Lechín and Siles then announced the formation of a "National Revolution ary Front" to unite most forces, both left and right, in opposition to Paz. If it lasts, the Front will be the first sizable, organized political opposition in Bolivia since the 1952 revolution. But Paz remained unexcited. "I don't believe we are going to have a continuing political problem," he said. Referring to his former political allies, he added: "Some people are necessary for the early part of a revolution, others for a later stage. When the revolution enters the construction period, these people aren...