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...recently obtained a 670,000-acre concession in Guatemala, and a score of other U.S. firms have put in applications. The search for more oil is also going on elsewhere. Gulf Oil Corp. is planning to spend more than $1,000,000 this year on exploration in Bolivia: four U.S. oil companies are sponsoring a two-year geological mapping job in Peru...
Standing beneath the oil portraits of Bolivia's greatest heroes of the past, a man who is himself an authentic hero of Bolivia today will receive this week the gold medallion and green-red-yellow sash of the presidency. Hernan Siles Zuazo, 42, is following in his father's steps: 30 years ago, Hernando Siles stood in the same spot in the Chamber of Deputies to receive the presidential insignia...
Though a President's son, Hernan Siles literally had to fight his way. Slight (5 ft. 4 in.), nearsighted and mild-mannered, he has endured war and exile, and led a bloody revolution. At 20 he was wounded in Bolivia's Chaco War with Paraguay. At 27 he helped found the Movement of National Revolution (M.N.R.). the mildly leftist party that now runs Bolivia. During the next decade he was exiled twice by anti-M.N.R. governments, fled the country twice more to escape imprisonment. In 1951 he slipped back into Bolivia from exile to direct the campaign...
...Estenssoro returned from exile to take over as President, and Hero Siles stepped back into vice-presidential obscurity. With growing revenues from Bolivia's oilfields and more than $50 million in handouts of foodstuffs and dollars from the U.S. Government, Paz Estenssoro kept the nation's economy from
...entertaining Aramburu; Kubitschek managed to rush from the airport to the final reception for the visiting Argentine. Next day Aramburu sped off to Uruguay for a tumultuous one-day visit before returning to Buenos Aires-and Kubitschek settled down to await the arrival a few hours later of Bolivia's Hernan Siles Zuazo...