Word: bolivia
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...Called a world monetary conference for July 1 at swank Bretton Woods, in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Invited: all of the United Nations except Bolivia...
...State Department last week smiled fondly at hitherto discredited Bolivia. Avra Warren, U.S. Ambassador to Panama, showed up in Washington after a look-see trip to Bolivia, reported favorably on the unrecognized regime of President Gualberto Villarroel. If all the other good neighbors agreed, Bolivia might soon be recognized...
Scanty reports from Bolivia last week indicated that President Villarroel and his Government of young Army officers and intellectuals were again at war with the tin companies. Hochschild again was the chief antagonist. Patiño was in Montreal. Dapper Aramayo had ducked into sanctuary in the Spanish Embassy...
...turned to Bolivia, began to apply modern techniques to abandoned, worked-over tin mines. Since then he has branched into copper, zinc, silver, tungsten-a variety of mine holdings which eventually exceeded those of Simón Patiño. A few Bolivians welcomed Hochschild and his up-&-coming ways; others cursed him for stimulating the specialized mining economy which caused Bolivia's underpaid, tuberculous, ill-fed masses untold misery, and prevented diversification which might have made a healthier economy...
...Mauricio, in jail, had every chance of getting out, or at worst of being exiled. He had many potent Argentine and U.S. friends. His foresighted charities had won him the support of many groups, including Jewish refugees. Benjamin Cohen, Chilean Ambassador to Bolivia, interceded for him. Even behind bars, Don Mauricio was still a power-center of Bolivian politics...