Word: bolivia
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...Light on Bolivia...
...learn Spanish.; Part of the bilingual staff is made up of writers and journalists from Latin American countries, including Alberto Cellario and Leonor Villanueva, ex-editors on the staff of La Prensa, the once great Argentine daily taken over by Peron. Other Latin American staffers: Walter Montenegro, one of Bolivia's leading newspaper columnists: Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo, winner of Cuba's 1951 National Literary Prize; Maruxa Nunez de Villa-vicencio, former fashion editor of Havana's daily. El Mundo; Ramon Frausto, who wrote a column syndicated in more than 40 Mexican papers...
...seems caught in the middle. To make a go of his gamble, Paz needs foreign technicians, credits to buy supplies, peace with his miners, and a long-term contract for sale of Bolivia's tin. With huge private investments already under pressure in such neighboring countries as Venezuela, the U.S. cannot openly condone Bolivian nationalization. The RFC, which resumed buying Bolivian tin (at $1.17½ a Ib.) after Paz's revolution, stopped when nationalization occurred. Yet from a strategic standpoint, Bolivia's tin (only 20% of the world's nowadays, but the sole supply...
...Patiño? When the Paz regime was organized, a diplomat observed: "There is a time bomb in that cabinet, and his name is Juan Lechin." Now Minister of Mines as well as boss of the tin miners' union. Lechin is the second most powerful man in Bolivia...
...been able to control and even use him. But back of Lechin are Communist labor leaders, who also plan to use him. Such Marxists are spreading the word among Bolivia's Indians that land reform is next, and a restlessness has already been noted on the altiplano. If Paz shoots the nationalist wad and fails, the door to Marxist revolution may be blown wide open. And if the Reds sneak in, Bolivia will indeed be back on the map of the world's trouble spots...