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...Lamppost. The slight, urbane colonel, who comes from a family of landowners, trained at U.S. Army schools in Panama and the U.S. before serving as Bolivian military attaché in Washington, D.C. He has a reputation for being cool under fire. One day in 1966, when Banzer was Minister of Education in the late René Barrientos' government, an angry crowd of teachers demonstrated outside his office. "String up Banzer!" they shouted. Suddenly Banzer appeared in their midst. "I will be waiting near the lamppost to see who is the brave one who is going to hang...
...Latins are not dependent because we are poor," says the socialist-minded Bolivian ex-Minister of Mines, Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz. "On the contrary, we are poor because we are dependent." In an effort to decrease its dependence on the U.S., Latin America is now looking elsewhere for economic and military aid, chiefly to Europe, Japan and even the Soviet Union. In the past few years Moscow has established diplomatic relations with eight Latin American countries and sharply increased its trade with them to more than $300 million annually. France has invaded a traditional U.S. aircraft market with Mirage jets...
...distinct from those wanderers who, to mock the present, dress like Depression Okies, trading-post Tontos or deserters from the Bolivian army. Jones seems very much at ease with himself. Where a certified counterculture writer like Richard Brautigan beats a well-attended retreat into an America of little more than his own enchanting imagination, Jones and his friends privately brave real effluvia. It would be a grand experience to be up a creek with them-with or without a paddle. ∙R.Z. Shepard
Lately, Cuba's bearded leader seems to be delivering nothing but stern exhortations. Two weeks ago, he wrote to Régis Debray, the French intellectual who was captured shortly before Bolivian soldiers killed Che Guevara in 1967 and was recently released from prison. "We are working hard and facing great difficulties," Castro confessed. "The march is truly long, Debray, because it is when power has been taken that we revolutionaries understand that we are barely starting...
Publicity Stunt? The would-be assassin, police soon learned, was not a Filipino but a Bolivian painter, Benjamin Mendoza y Amor, 35, who had lived in Argentina, the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong and the Philippines since leaving La Paz in 1962. He wanted to kill the Pope, he claimed, "to save the people from hypocrisy and superstition." In an interview the next day, Mendoza said that he had first formed the idea of assassinating the Pope "a long time ago," and would try again if he were free. Filipino acquaintances agreed that Mendoza was "a frustrated artist." A New York...