Word: bolivia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Pérez Esquivel is only the second Argentine ever to win the Peace Prize (the first was Foreign Minister Saavedra Lamas in 1936 for having settled the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay), the reaction of the junta was singularly graceless. Claiming that the award had "taken the country by surprise," the military leadership charged that Pérez Esquivel's activities "were effectively used, regardless of his intentions, to make the movement of various terrorist organizations easier...
...lingering militant leftist underground is dwindling, said one active member. "Our forces have dried up, it is no longer possible to smuggle arms through Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia. The paramilitary knows where we are; it's only time before they kill...
...jurors in the Brooklyn federal courtroom last week with reminiscences of how, as a young man of 17, he cruised around Long Island smashing windows with a slingshot to boost sales at his father's glass business. He told of swindling $30,000 from the Attorney General of Bolivia and, by age 50, becoming so adept at devising con games that he franchised them to other swindlers and earned the nickname "the McDonald's of con men." But in 1977, the FBI caught Melvin Weinberg, now 55, trying to fleece Singer Wayne Newton and several other people...
...miners continue a costly strike ($1.5 million a day in lost export earnings). Not even all the military approve of the coup: Garcia Meza's reshuffling of troop commanders is seen as a clear sign of suspect allegiance. Archbishop Jorge Manriquez Hurtado of La Paz and Bolivia's Council of Bishops have condemned the junta for creating a "climate of violence." On Aug. 6, Independence Day, the day he probably would have been chosen President, Siles Zuazo announced from his hideaway that he was forming a clandestine "government of the Bolivian people." He called the Garcia Meza regime...
...probably come from the outside in the form of economic sanctions -painful for a country that has no foreign exchange reserves and is dependent on aid. Venezuela has frozen $285 million in credit. About $123 million, mostly in development aid, has been lost with the suspension of U.S. disbursements. Bolivia's balance of payments deficit for 1980 is now forecast to be $500 million; with tin exports interrupted, the junta may in effect go bankrupt before it has a chance to do more damage. In addition to eliminating all military assistance and sharply cutting back on economic...