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...BOLIVIA. A hospital, six schools, three dispensaries, a home-visiting program...
Argentina is not the only country in which the press is being hamstrung. The Chicago Tribune's Latin American Correspondent Jules Dubois. an old foe of censorship and suppression, delivered a report singling out Argentina as the worst offender, but also recommending that protests be made to Bolivia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Peru, Nicaragua and Venezuela for various forms of interference...
Because of the current projects success, Public Health officials feel that the government, under its technical assistance program, may wish to extend it into Bolivia and other South American countries. They take the current grant as a sign of the government's increasing interest in its public health projects...
There was much to be grateful for. When Paz Estenssoro took power 2½ years ago, he was less than an even bet to last six months. Bolivia faced starvation, counterrevolution, a serious Communist threat, an empty treasury and a world glut of tin, its only valuable export. The U.S. helped save the situation by sending free wheat and buying tin for the strategic stockpile. Cost of grant-aid to the U.S.: $17 million-10? for each U.S. citizen. Two and a half years later, Bolivia still needs more loans and grants. But it has a better chance than ever...
...Chilean economists later told him that at November's hemisphere conference in Rio they will seek creation of a new development-loan bank and price supports for Latin American raw materials. Holland spoke up for broadened trade and private investments, and departed, soberly, for Bolivia...