Word: bolivia
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...Scope. The new bank has divided its cash in two. The larger portion, 85%, will be used for normal development loans repayable in the currency lent. The rest will make up a special fund for emergencies or for special projects outside the normal scope of banking, e.g., roads in Bolivia. Regardless of what currency the special loans are made in. they can be made repayable partly or wholly in the currency of the borrowing nation. Interest on normal loans will be a maximum of 6%, low by Latino standards; on special loans the rate will be as little...
...many Latin American delegates, but Castro's 100% line-up with the Reds hit home even harder. Said Chile's delegation chief, Daniel Schweitzer: "Castro exposed himself in all ways." Among the Latin Americans, only the delegation from Mexico applauded him, with occasional support from Venezuela and Bolivia. But with Khrushchev cuing the applause, pudgy palms pounding high over his head as the signal, Castro got enough cheers even for his mammoth ego. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah hailed the speech as "dramatic." Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser hugged Castro and invited him to Egypt...
...detector started work last fall, and on Dec. 3 Irma Argandona, a student from Bolivia, noted by scanning the raw data that something unusual had happened at nine minutes after midnight...
...initial division was between two groups. One group-including Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Uruguay, Paraguay, El Salvador and Colombia-was willing to go along with the U.S. in a specific denunciation of Russian and Communist Chinese intervention and of Cuba for inviting it. Other foreign ministers-from Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Honduras and Ecuador-were moved by their own leftism, by fear of disappointing masses back home who hero-worship Castro or by fear of seeming subservient to the U.S. They favored a resolution mildly deploring outside intervention...
...ovens to bake it. When new recruits needed to learn tactics and discipline, Che taught them. When a school was needed to teach peasants to read and write, Che organized it. If a situation called for a revolution ary expert, Che knew how it had been done in Bolivia or Guatemala. Through the long evenings, without ever appearing to contradict, Che encouraged Castro's leftism, planted the seeds of a deep-cutting and basic grab for power...