Word: bolivia
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...trying to lift Bolivia's political picture out of the darkness and showing it as clearly as possible to the public, my heartiest congratulations to TIME...
...must disagree emphatically with your characterization of the President of Bolivia as a dictator. The late Gualberto Villaroel was not pro-Nazi; in fact, he was one of the few men in all Latin America who clung consistently to the view that the democracies would win World War II. Nor can I subscribe to the implication that Juan Lechin, the Minister of Mines, is a radical . . . Nevertheless, the entire story shows clearly that the Bolivian situation was approached objectively, and that an attempt was made to get at the facts and to appraise them without bias. Consequently, I cannot object...
VICTOR ANDRADE Ambassador of Bolivia Washington...
...average native on the altiplano were to cook his meals over a cow-dung fire, the cow dung would have to be imported from the Argentine pampas. Cows are pretty scarce in Bolivia as a whole, and virtually nonexistent on the altiplano. The natives there use llama dung for fuel...
...rest of the world also needs U.S. venture capital. But private U.S. investors cannot be expected to risk capital in foreign countries unless they have guarantees against expropriation of their investments. They have not been encouraged by such recent actions as the United Nations' sanction of Bolivia's seizure of foreign tin companies without compensation...