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...baring his economic fangs to the extent of a four month quasi-embargo on the expert of vital foodstuffs to Bolivia, Argentina's dictator, Juan D. Peron, has succeeded in sweating an important trade contract out of mineral-rich Bolivia and has added another balky satellite to his growing sphere of influence. The pact was ostensibly signed in an aura of good will and mutual agreement, but actually was achieved through a complete strangulation of Bolivian economy. Dependent on Argentina for ninety percent of its wheat and sixty percent of its meat quota, the newly democratic government unwisely flaunted...
...Argentina that has strengthened Peron and bewildered what Latin-American supporters the State Department has left. When Ambassador Braden interfered with internal Argentine politics in a get tough policy, Peron was swept into office among cries of "Yankee Imperialism" and the current attitude of appeasement allowed Argentina to suck Bolivia into its fold...
Shortly thereafter, Daveron and the R.D.C. agents in Rio had a difference of opinion. Daveron wanted to push west through the plains of Bolivia, then north to the rubber country. The R.D.C. preferred the route that followed the old telegraph line strung diagonally across the great Brazilian plateau by General Candido Mariano Rondon, a famed Indianologist. Neither side budged. So the R.D.C., despairing of the mules project, sold most of the beasts...
...Amazon. Muleteer Daveron bought the remaining mules. He sold some to the Brazilian Army to finance the trip, then with 171 of the strongest he set out for the Amazon by way of Bolivia, as he had planned all along...
There was nothing easy about his route. He and his drivers fought off both Indians and rustlers. Sometimes floods held up the mule drove for months. Sometimes mules went lame crossing the rocky outcroppings in northeastern Bolivia. When that happened, the troop would halt while the animals were roped, thrown, and treated to hoof repairs. In the autumn of 1946, they were still in Trinidad, Bolivia, 400 miles from their goal...