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...said a foreign diplomat in La Paz, "we are living in a state of anarchy." One week after President Victor Paz Estenssoro had been toppled by a military uprising, about the only thing General René Barrientos and his junta of colonels had proved was that it is easier to foment a revolution than to run a government...
Stanley cited Premier Castro of Cuba, former President Betancourt of Venezuela, Premier Ben Bella of Algeria, former President Paz Estenssoro of Bolivia, and President Sukarno of Indonesia as Communists supported by the U.S. "I ask myself," he said, "'Were we fooled, or was it treason?' It's enough to make you become a right-wing extremist...
Stretching the Constitution. Yet in Bolivia's hotheaded politics, where emotions soar as high as the Andes, Paz made many enemies. Last year he rammed through a questionable constitutional amendment allowing him to run for a second consecutive term. In protest, opposition parties, and even many of his own party members, handed in empty ballots in the May election. As the hostility increased, Paz in September declared a state of siege, imposing press censorship and packing several of his loudest critics off to exile. Next Paz quarreled with his Vice President, Rene Barrientos, 45, an ambitious air force general...
Resentment flared into the open two weeks ago as students and miners rioted in half a dozen towns. But with the army on his side, Paz squelched the uprising. Then last week, the army's crack Ingavi Regiment revolted in La Paz-and rebellion flamed through garrisons all around the country. From his home town of Cochabamba, where he had gone to avoid Paz, Barrientos openly denounced the President as ruthless and called on him to resign...
Realizing that he lacked the support to hang on, Paz decided to flee, leaving General Alfredo Ovando Candia, 46, commander in chief of the armed forces, to pick up the pieces. For 24 hours anti-government rioters surged through La Paz, looting, burning and sniping at army troops sent to keep order. Before it was over, 45 were killed, 160 wounded. Out of hiding came Leftist Juan Lechin, 51, Paz's archrival and boss of most of the country's 35,000 tin miners. Adding to the chaos, his miners demanded the re-establishment of union control...