Word: bolivia
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...news spread, one Jorge Blau wrote from Bolivia's northeastern jungle to say that he was Stephen's brother. Austrian representatives in Rio filed a claim. A search was begun for the heirs in Vienna. Last week, the La Paz courts were trying to decide what should be done with the fortune of this old beggar who apparently forgot that he had 8,000,000 bolivianos stored away...
...Tacho") Somoza passed the word: one nation after another was recognizing the government of his uncle, President Victor Román y Reyes, which he put in power last August without an election. He listed them: Costa Rica, Honduras, the Dominican Republic of Fellow-Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay. If enough of the American republics gave him the right hand of fellowship, he felt that the U.S. would follow. That would again make him a member in good standing in the Pan-American nations club...
...right about Costa Rica, Honduras and Trujilloland, but the other countries hastily denied any such intentions. At week's end, the Foreign Office lamely admitted that it had all been a mistake. Tacho had cabled New Year's greetings to the American republics and when Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay sent him best wishes in return, he had mistaken them for notes of recognition...
Such countries as Mexico, Colombia and Bolivia, which had led the agitation for a hemispheric Marshall Plan, would benefit hardly at all. Brazil had only coffee and cotton textiles to offer. These were the countries that had cried loudest for U.S. development loans, and would be heard from again at the Bogotá conference next March...
...Guatemala, Venezuela, Peru, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Panama and Bolivia now have similar literacy campaigns. Argentina and Uruguay have had them for years...