Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contemplated at first, when Personality always appeared opposite the People section), News in Pictures, color pages in TIME's Art section, and color portfolios on areas of the world of special news interest. Among them: São Paulo, Hawaii, Kentucky's horse farms, French Morocco, Bolivia, the Missouri Valley and four pages of reproductions from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...single paragraph on the back page. In the end, Perón had to settle for a good deal less than he wanted. The two Presidents signed a protocol pledging negotiation of a treaty within 120 days that should provide for eventual and gradual establishment of a customs union. Bolivia and Peru may be invited to join later...
...minor, relatively obscure section of world politics. It is this very attitude which helps to increase the sluggish, lackadaisical concern with the area. Of Course there are world sections undergoing much more crucial developments. Nonetheless, the anti-Yankee campaigns of Peron, the nationalization of many industries, notably in Bolivia and Venezuela, and the infiltration of Communism are not developments to be treated lightly. And although Latin America is not generally considered a dangerous section, the Far East was in the same category but a few short years...
...some awareness of South America. But its single full course, half on Latin America's colonial period, half on Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, is far from adequate. By limiting itself to the ABC countries, it overlooks dangerous (for the U.S. at least happenings in other South American nations, notably Bolivia and Peru; and being a history course which stresses incidents, not general trends, it cannot hope to studey the background and significance of contemporary events in South America...
...rest of the world also needs U.S. venture capital. But private U.S. investors cannot be expected to risk capital in foreign countries unless they have guarantees against expropriation of their investments. They have not been encouraged by such recent actions as the United Nations' sanction of Bolivia's seizure of foreign tin companies without compensation...