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...Paraguay's President Higinio Morinigo had dined in Manhattan with a director of Union Oil. As Morinigo hoisted his food, he dropped a hint: oil gushed in the Bolivian Chaco, why not in the Paraguayan Chaco? The hint became a project. Soon three Union Oil geologists hacked their way through the Chaco brush. They reported that the region had a geological structure characteristic of oil fields...
...reporter in La Paz tried to telephone the news to his office in Buenos Aires. Bolivian military censors...
...little news did leak out. Hochschild, jailed twice as a political conspirator, had vanished during the Bolivian national elections. The story was that he had been kidnapped by a group of Army officers pledged to remove all active opponents of Bolivia's new regime. One of the regime's professed aims is to whittle down the power of the three mining magnates (Simón I. Patiño, Carlos Victor Aramayo, Hochschild) who have long dominated Bolivian politics...
Patiño was last reported to be riding out the Bolivian blow in Montreal. Hochschild was rumored to be about to fly to Chile. His promise to leave Bolivia may have been the condition of his release. Only Aramayo would be left in Bolivia. Last week Señora Aramayo, her lips shut tight, arrived by plane in Buenos Aires...
During the excitement, the Bolivian Congress met as an Electoral College. After some tense maneuvering, it promoted Provisional President Gualberto Villarroel to legal President. The relation between the election and Hochschild's disappearence, though rumored, did not leak out through tight Bolivian censorship...