Word: bolivia
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...President Kennedy's desk last week was a 50-page report written by a three-man team*sent to Bolivia with orders to "review the status and effectiveness of U.S. economic policies in Bolivia." The fact-finding team spent twelve days in the barren, mountainous Altiplano, getting a first-hand look at the problems of a nation that is rich in minerals but little else...
...Latin American nation has received more U.S. aid than Bolivia, and few have less to show for it. Since 1952, the U.S. has pumped $169,600,000 into Bolivia, either in technical assistance or outright grants. Yet Bolivia's economy is still near bankruptcy, and its 3,500,000 ill-housed, ill-fed people are never far from revolt. The U.S. is now taking a new look at its aid program in hopes of finding a way to straighten out this discouraging situation...
...stress his own favored slogan, "Alliance for Progress." To the President, the hemisphere's alliance must be a two-way street, with U.S. cash and technical assistance matched by Latin American self-help and selfdiscipline. Before him was an emergency request for $20 million to shore up Bolivia's chronically collapsing economy. Kennedy's response was to send a team of economic experts to Bolivia to determine exactly what the money might accomplish...
...Director James Symington, 33, guitar-playing, folksinger son of Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington. Symington's five-man team flew to Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador to offer grain, seed and other surplus foodstuffs as inducements to get to work on land-reform programs. Other stops: Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. McGovern. traveling with Brain-Truster Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (along as Kennedy's personal representative), visited food-exporting Argentina to reassure it that the giveaway program is not intended to harm normal markets. "A man who's starving and not in a position...
...campaign in Argentina to raise "10,000 volunteers to fight to defend Cuba." Across the Rio Plata in Uruguay, beset by labor troubles and riots. President Benito Nardone pointed up the undercover organizing work of Castro's ambassador by calling openly for a break with Castro. Colombia and Bolivia have quietly sent home the ambassadors from Cuba, and though Mexico still pays its official respects to Castro, the government makes sure to keep its own brand of Castroite leftists in jail...