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...Sierra Maestra. A few weeks ago, Negro strolled into the small town of Saipuru, stole a truck and eight gallons of gasoline from a government-owned oil company, then fled with five soldiers as his prisoners. Last week a manifesto signed by Negro was making the rounds in La Paz, calling on Bolivians to make their nation a "strategic center of continental revolution." To win over peasants in the countryside, the guerrillas-apparently financed by Cuba-often pay double prices at the local stores as a friendly gesture, and buy soda pop for the kids; one of their doctors recently...
...Bolivia, a band of 100 or so Castroite guerrillas is active. The government got the first hint of their existence a few weeks ago when an army patrol ran into an artfully concealed ambush in a mountainous area 350 miles southeast of La Paz, lost seven men. A subsequent army sweep turned up a recently deserted training area complete with field hospital, bakery, and other clues of the Cuban presence. Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos ordered a Ranger battalion to make pursuit; so far, the army has killed ten guerrillas and captured ten, including a 26-year-old Frenchman...
Latin American common market. After leaving Punta del Este, Panama's Marco Robles traveled last week with Argentina's Juan Carlos Ongania to Buenos Aires for a twelve-hour personal visit. On his way home to Bogota, Colombia's Carlos Lleras Restrepo stopped over in La Paz to deliver a message to President René Barrientos, who had boycotted the summit meeting. Lleras brought word from Chile's Eduardo Frei that he was willing to discuss with Barrientos the possibility of granting Bolivia access to the sea. Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner plans to visit Ongania...
...over Spain, the word was sí. FRANCO SÍ proclaimed a sign that covered four stories of a skyscraper in downtown Madrid. VOTE SÍ FOR LA PAZ echoed posters on the walls and lampposts of every Spanish town. Spanish movie stars filmed television spots to prove that they wanted to sí as well as be seen, and flamenco dancers hammered out special sí seguidillas with their heels. To be sure that no one missed the message, billboards from Cádiz to Catalonia displayed a silky señorita in an overstuffed sweater, urging motorists...
After a final, hearty abrazo, Barrientos flew to La Paz, where he made preparations for another summit meeting this week-with Brazil's President Humberto Castello Branco. Belaúnde got into a helicopter and whirred off to the isolated, primitive Peruvian village of Aguarunas, where his interpreter explained to the curious Indians that this tall, grey-haired white man was the President of something called Peru. While the Indians laughed and shrugged in confusion, Belaúnde threw an arm around one for a quick photograph, then popped back into his helicopter for another stop or two before...