Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trouble in Bolivia...
...reaction to your story on Bolivia [March 2] was more violent but otherwise in line with the response to similar factual descriptions of the Bolivian situation. A year ago Senator Theodore Green and I were bitterly attacked in La Paz for a speech in the Senate and for an article, respectively. I served as fiscal adviser to the Bolivian government on a special U.S. mission in 1956-57. I returned with the conviction that a continuation of U.S. aid policies would lead to further economic and social deterioration and disaster. Privately, most of the U.S. technicians in Bolivia will confirm...
There are enough tangled problems in our world without irresponsible journalism coming on the scene to complicate matters further. What TIME hopes to accomplish by setting Cuba, Bolivia and Latin America against the U.S., I do not know. TIME's smug self-righteousness and perverted sense of journalistic humor may tickle the fancies of the uninformed here. I was in Cuba, and I can no longer laugh with...
...citizen of Bolivia I would like to apologize for the stoning of the U.S. Embassy in La Paz. On the other hand, I demand an apology from your magazine for your controversial article about Bolivia. Your article reflected the still-remaining thought in the U.S. that friendship can be bought...
Over a year ago when I was a Smith-Mundt lecturer in Bolivia, I heard the joke that Bolivia and her troubles should be divided among her neighbors. It was told to me by Bolivians, and it was not a new joke then...