Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strengthened last week, when the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to invite the P.L.O. to sit as "representative of the Palestinian people" in a U.N. debate on the Palestinian question, probably to be held next month. There were 105 yes votes and 20 abstentions. Only Israel, the U.S., Bolivia and the Dominican Republic voted...
...confrontation between old and new, the impoverished urban masses are rooted in traditions that translate into visions for the future. In Mexico, land-hungry paracaistas ("parachuters") in the cities pounce on haciendas and overnight divide them up into the plots that decades earlier their parents and grandparents farmed. In Bolivia peasants farming in the countryside set up blockades in the nation's highways and throw stones at army troops in protest of arbitrary price rises instituted by the military government. Like Emiliano Zapata, who 60 years ago helped fuel the Mexican Revolution by fighting to recover land which for centuries...
...Mohammed Reza Pahlavi on the throne of Iran; the 1954 revolution that overthrew the Communist-dominated government of President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. The CIA has been suspected of participating in the 1967 military coup in Greece, the capture and killing in 1967 of Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara in Bolivia, and the 1970 overthrow of Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia...
...impact on Latin America, but in a major Latin American country you would have a Communist government, joining for example, Argentina, which is already deeply divided, along a long frontier, joining Peru, which has already been heading in directions that have been difficult to deal with, and joining Bolivia, which has also gone in a more leftist anti-U.S. direction, even without any of these developments...
...beginning of next year, most Latin American countries will probably have recognized the Castro regime. The only diehards in the hemisphere are expected to be the rightist regimes of Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and Paraguay...