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...that someone would shoot the Pope. And that saddened me more than anything else." Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn was in Beirut reporting on the current confrontation between Israel and Syria when he received news of the attack. Wynn, who was in Manila in 1970 when a knife-wielding Bolivian fanatic lunged at Pope Paul VI, hurried back to Rome to cover his second attempted papal assassination. "In the wake of the Lennon killing and the Reagan shooting, this attack looks like part of a chain reaction of violence," says Wynn. "One such highly publicized event seems...
Charles R. Hale '81, a Social Studies concentrator who wrote his thesis on Boliva, is also a member of Education for Action's Bolivian Study Group...
With the upsurge of militarism and Cold War politics in the U.S., rapid change in the Bolivian situation is highly improbable. If the past is any indication, miners and campesinos will slowly reorganize and gradually force a political opening. This will give the Left an opportunity to reformulate its strategy in light of past experience. Opposition leaders agree that the new strategy must include a means to neutralize the military, either through political influence or countervailing military strength. Our responsibility as North Americans is to support the reassertion of the Bolivian Left as it occurs, and to oppose all diplomatic...
...cocaine mafia that includes even the president Luis Garcia Meza. Informants within Bolivia report that cocaine production now has become centralized, efficient and much more tightly controlled. The losers are Indian peasants, who no longer can afford to chew coca because its price has risen astronomically. With the Bolivian mafia so pervasive and well-connected, any thought of internal drug enforcement would be preposterous...
...emergency grant given by those involved in the illicit trade to avert an impending economic crisis. De Concinni and others also demanded that the most blatant drug traders be removed from the government, a condition that Garcia Meza met last month by dismissing Colonels Arce Gomez and Coca. The Bolivian government propbably will continue to comply with U.S. demands in hopes of achieving formal recognition and the accompanying economic support. Notably absent from U.S. demands, however, is reference to the extensive political repression and human rights violations of the Garci "Meza" regime--which clearly are not ameliorated by cosmetic changes...