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Striking students and teachers had sparked the revolution four days before. Around the grey stone presidential palace (which houses the best bowling alley in Bolivia) they had stormed and shouted. As the President spoke, gunfire rattled. The shots missed the President, hit his aides. Then Government police and soldiery moved in. When they were through, the gutters...
...thick adobe walls. Sharpshooters who peppered the palace cut off Villarroel's escape. On Sunday, the revolutionists broke in. A few minutes later Villarroel, an Army major and Chaco war veteran, lay dead. His dictatorial regime, which began with a military coup in December 1943, had passed into Bolivia's troubled history...
This week Bolivia had a civilian government. A junta headed by Supreme Court dean Nestor Guillen took over provisionally. The vicious military clique that had given Bolivia its fascist label faded, momentarily at least, into the background...
Whoever ruled faced real problems. Bolivia's once-rich tin mines now produced only medium-grade ores. The mass of the coca-chewing Indian population was illiterate, and Bolivia's leaders had so far shown neither the vision nor energy to transform them into efficient producers and prospective consumers. One thin ray of hope: a U.S.-financed highway that would join the dry, food-scarce plateau with the verdant eastern plains, perhaps integrate the country's economy...
Oxcart Economy. That has been Paraguay's leading question ever since Dictator Francisco Solano López's, lust for power led Paraguay to defeat in the bloody war with Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil (1865-1870). The debacle of the Chaco War with Bolivia (1929-38) had just about finished the job. It left Paraguay a back-country ruin...