Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch, which outfits some of the world's best fishermen, is telling some of its well-heeled clients about a fabulous new South American fishing hole. The place: Lake Titicaca, the world's highest (12,500 ft.) navigable lake, on the border between Bolivia and Peru...
After last month's bloody triumph, Bolivia's new revolutionary regime split over the question of how fast to nationalize the all-important tin mining industry. Juan Lechin, tough boss of the republic's 40,000 tin miners and the new Minister of Mines, demanded swift action, and talked as though the job could be done in a month or so. But President Victor Paz Estenssoro insisted that nationalization must be carried out slowly and cautiously...
...only discovers the statue but also a girl member of the original ill-fated expedition, who has now grown up to become a sort of Jane Russell of the jungle. Boy & girl lose the idol but, predictably, find that they idolize each other. Fumblingly filmed in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia and awkwardly dubbed in English, Strange World features man-eating crocodiles, carnivorous piranha fish, headhunters armed with poisoned arrows, and raging rapids. But the movie's most exotic attraction is an Indian guide playing The Old Folks at Home on a harmonica as the expedition cruises down the Amazon...
Victor Paz Estenssoro, 44, last week returned to Bolivia (after six years in Argentina) to take over the presidency he had won from exile in last year's election, then lost to a military junta, and finally won back when the junta was toppled in the Holy Week revolution, Bolivia's 179th since 1825. Shouting fanatics of his Movement of National Revolution party plodded seven miles uphill to El Alto airport to give Paz a delirious welcome...
...fate of the great tin mines, 72% foreign-controlled (in the U.S., Chile, Switzerland) and source of 80% of Bolivia's foreign exchange, is the revolution's No. 1 question. Paz ran in 1951 on a nationalization platform. His backer, Juan Lechin, Marxist mine labor leader who now holds the new office of Minister of Mine: and Petroleum, is on record that "the workers must equip themselves to run the mine: effectively without the assistance of the owners." Paz almost certainly still intends to nationalize the mines, but he apparently means to go slow. For one thing, recognition...