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...road led first to Bolivia, then in the throes of a historic revolution that dispossessed the rich of land and tin mines. In a filthy brown jacket, stained necktie and scuffed shoes, Che became a member of a group of coffeehouse leftists. He went on to Peru, Ecuador, Panama and finally to Costa Rica, a democratic haven for exiles from all over Latin America. Among them were five or six young Cubans who had been led in an attack on a Santiago barracks by a beardless young rebel named Fidel Castro on July 26, 1953-an anniversary that Fidel Castro...
...Victor Paz Estenssoro, 52, the President who led Bolivia through a sweeping revolution from 1952 to 1956, smashing the army and giving illiterate Indians guns and votes, will take over a bankrupt country on Aug. 6. Bolivia has no treasury reserves, is almost wholly dependent on the U.S., whose $150 million subsidy has kept the country going for the past seven years. Per capita annual income has fallen 10% (to $60) since 1956; the tin mines that Paz Estenssoro nationalized in 1952 are now losing Bolivia $9,000,000 a year, cannot fill their quotas under the inter national...
...Uruguay, Dorticós was flatly warned that his plan to address a street rally would be regarded as interference in its internal affairs. Bolivia's government somehow delayed extending an invitation to Dorticós so long that it was too late for him to accept. Peru shifted Dorticós' arrival to a distant military airfield and barred welcomers. Chile refused to admit him. Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt sent his Foreign Minister to intercept the Cuban President in Buenos Aires and persuade him to stay away because his trip "was not convenient...
Eichmann at first worked as a surveyor for a German-American engineering firm called Capri. For the next several years he turned up under various aliases in Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia. By 1956 he was back in Argentina with a job as mechanic in the capital's outskirts, worked later on as an overseer on a farm in the interior. In 1958 he returned to Buenos Aires, became an office employee in an automobile plant and lived near the airport with his German wife and four children (the last was born after his family joined...
Among the few Latin places where the auto population has not reached mature old age are Bolivia and Colombia. In the rarefied air of La Paz, the 11,900-ft. high capital of Bolivia, even the strongest auto passes on after a mere 15 years or so. And in Colombia most cars are likewise postwar models. Very few cars were imported in the 1920s and 1930s, because in those days Colombia had scarcely any paved roads...