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Operation Triangular. Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro may have been less surprised than many of his countrymen. He is a cautious man who refrains from making important moves until he feels sure the odds are with...
...Estenssoro's goal is to make the tin mines profitable again by modernizing equipment and de-featherbedding payrolls. If he succeeds, that will be an important victory for him and for Bolivia. Before Bolivia's 1952 revolution, led by Paz Estenssoro, the tin mines produced the ore equivalent of about 30,000 tons of tin a year, accounted for the greater part of the nation's foreign exchange. Within a few years after the triumphant revolution nationalized the mines, production and efficiency sank to the point where the mines ceased to be profitable. In recent years, they...
...Cold as Marble. When the fever began its rampages three years ago in Bolivia's northeastern province of Beni, the dirt-poor villagers around San Joaquin called it "the black typhus." But this was a far deadlier disease. It struck almost one-third of the population, and killed about one-third of its victims. Men and women of all ages were stricken. First came fever, chills and headache. Then, in many cases, an agonizing pain in the back, usually followed by a rash in the throat, tremor of the tongue and extremities, bleeding from tiny vessels around the eyes...
Bolivian doctors concluded that the disease was a form of hemorrhagic fever similar to those already known from Manchuria, Korea, India and Argentina. But was the responsible virus the same as any of those from other lands? And what animal or insect transmitted the virus to its human victims? Bolivia asked the internationally sponsored Middle America Research Unit, based in Balboa with Arizona-born Dr. Henry K. Beye as its head, to mobilize its forces for a jungle...
From Caribbean bases, the U.S. Air Force flew ten tons of supplies to Bolivia in March, and four tons of laboratory gear in May. The Bolivian air force flew it all to San Joaquin. There, a team of physicians, virologists, entomologists, and ecologists set to work. First, the disease detectives plotted where the fever victims had lived-and died. They put healthy monkeys in single cages and left them for days in the forest where four woodcutters had . I worked just before they became ill. They put other "sentinel" monkeys in houses left empty by the deaths of whole families...