Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in his annual I.A.P.A. report on press freedom, Jules Dubois complained of a governmental stranglehold on the news in five countries besides the Dominican Republic: Paraguay, Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and Colombia. "Not next year, or the year after, but some year," says Dubois, "the time may come when the association can say to a dictator or a would-be dictator: 'Stop! You've gone far'enough!'" But Dubois reports that even in countries where newspapers are basically free, even in Castillo Armas' Guatemala, attempts at suppression continue. The moment a free press fears...
...Paulo and lately a political down-and-out, last week dragged himself back from oblivion by winning the mayoralty of Sao Paulo city. The comeback was spectacular; a year ago Adhemar, convicted of giving away five state-owned trucks while in office, was living in uneasy exile in Bolivia...
M.N.R. dreamed of tin profits for the government, high wages for the miners, self-sufficient agriculture, development of Bolivia's promising oil potential. Lacking capital, the government took a chance: it printed the money to pay the miners who produced the tin that brought in the dollars needed for development. It calculated that greater farm production (lessening dependence on dollar-bought food) and greater exports of dollar-earners like oil might balance off trade before the boliviano went into a spin...
House Cleaning. The stabilization loan announced last week came about after Bolivia, in despair, got the services of a U.S. consultant named George Jackson Eder, legal counsel for International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. and an old Latin American hand. The sum, equal at the present 10,000-to-$1 boliviano rate to nearly double the value of the 140 billion bolivianos now in circulation, should be enough, if carefully fed into the dollar market, to roll the boliviano well back. The experts guess that the boliviano's realistic rate will turn...
...work. Prices, for those who used to get subsidized commodities, will go up. Among the groups that will be hit, President Siles' popularity is bound to drop. Yet his great popularity is almost the only weapon Siles has to use in putting the reforms across; Bolivia's main armed force is not a government-directed regular army; it is the revolutionary militia set up by miners and other laborers...