Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President and the Indians were there for a major event: signing of the revolutionary government's promised land-reform decree. The law will expropriate big estates of landlords (half of them absentee proprietors), who own 70% of Bolivia's farmland, paying for them in 25-year government bonds. For 400 years Indians have lived on these lands virtually as serfs, working the owners' fields three days a week in return for their own small plots of potatoes, corn, barley and pigweed seed (a cereal). In practice, landlords have been able to buy and sell the farm hands...
...land reform may prove harder to bring off than his nationalization of Bolivian tin (TIME, Nov. 10). Aside from the danger of violence between landlords and peasants, there is an admitted risk that the Indians, once they own land, will grow just enough for their needs, leaving Bolivia (which spends 35% of its national income for imported food) hungrier than ever. Said Paz Estenssoro to the Indians at Ucareña: "Now that the land is yours, I ask you to carry out your part by growing more." Donning a native cap himself, he then sprinkled some drops of chicha...
...Local troops drove off the rebels, pursued them into the hills and captured a cache of weapons and uniforms near Siboney. As the mop-up continued, casualties mounted to 82 dead and 36 wounded; it was Latin America's bloodiest revolt since last year's uprising in Bolivia (TIME. April...
...months ago, Bolivians saw a ray of hope when the British signed a long-term contract for all the output of the Patino mines-about half Bolivia's production. And last week there were encouraging reports that the Patino interests were about ready to settle with government negotiators on the big question of compensation. Such a deal, reported to provide for payment of 5% of net sales into a fund from which the former owners would be reimbursed, could set the pattern for a settlement with all shareholders...
...Bates was an old South America hand. A U.S. citizen by birth, she went to Chile and Bolivia as the bride of a British mining engineer. After he drifted out of the picture, she moved to Arequipa and started a guesthouse with a small garden. In time it grew into a long, rambling structure surrounded by a pleasant jungle of trellised roses, honeysuckle and bougainvillaea. She called it Quinta Bates, and ran it with an imperious hand; travelers came to esteem it as the finest boarding house in the Western Hemisphere...