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...Bolivia's ten-year-old social revolution is the most complete in Latin America after Cuba's, Richard W. Patch told a Kirkland House seminar last night. He singled out extensive land reforms as the best evidence of the country's progress...
Patch, an anthropologist who has spent most of the last 11 years in South America, praised U.S. aid to Bolivia, which has amounted to $200 million since 1952. He credited the funds with supporting the progressive regime and preventing chaos and territorial disintegration...
Patch traced Bolivia's revolution to the country's war with Paraguay in 1935. During that conflict, he said, large numbers of Indians were drafted and exposed to nationalist propaganda in the army...
...work. But the increased currency in circulation is not matched by an equivalent increase in goods for sale. Thus prices climb higher, and the cost of living rises far faster than the world average. In the past five years, the cost of living jumped 212% in Argentina, 158% in Bolivia. 146% in Brazil, 111% in Chile, 133% in Uruguay...
Belgium 11% U.S. 12% Canada 12% Switzerland 12% West Germany 17% Italy 23% Japan 25% Great Britain 29% France 44% Spain 57% Mexico 66% Bolivia...