Word: bolivian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million of U.S. assistance to three leftist governments of the Movement of National Revolution has failed to attain any benefits whatsoever for the Bolivian people and has not even merited anyone's gratitude...
President Kennedy has read and endorsed the fact-finding team's blueprint. The immediate hurdle is Bolivian President Paz Estenssoro's willingness to risk the first politically unpopular step of making the mines more efficient. The miners are well armed and defiantly opposed to wholesale dismissals. However, President Paz Estenssoro, the man who led the 195 2 revolution, realizes that his movement will fail unless Bolivia solves its problems, and soon. Even the tin miners' Lechin, now the nation's Vice President, may understand that time is growing short. Visiting in Washington six weeks ago, Lechin...
...Russian offer of $150 million, the Bolivian government is well aware of the pitfalls, but it must bow to public opinion by sending a delegation to Moscow this week to discuss the Russian terms. The delegates have orders to ask tough questions...
...Julia, Patiño capped a long campaign to be legally free by obtaining a Mexican divorce. At that, Princess Maria Cristina decided no settlement, no divorce, and sued for a sizable chunk of the Patiño fortune on the reasonably sound ground that, as a Bolivian, Patiño is subject to the Bolivian law that foreign divorces are legal only when the nation in which the marriage was performed (in this case, divorceless Spain) permits divorce...
...obvious way out was to change the Bolivian divorce law. In prerevolutionary 1949, the tin baron proceeded to do just that. After the Senate gave Patiño what he wanted and it went to the Lower House, an embarrassingly plaintive and highly publicized cable arrived from the princess, arousing the influential Catholic Church and stopping Congress in its tracks. Earlier this year, Patiño tried again, but his efforts were vetoed by President...