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...example, Chile's new president made campaign promises to cancel Chile's Mutual Security Treaty, renew diplomatic relations with Russia, and allow the country's Reds to come out of hiding. The Bolivian government, which kicked American investors out of the tin industry, told the people that American refusal to pay a "fair" price for tin is at the root of their ecomic disaster. A flood of Communist and nationalist propaganda ruined our bid for a defense treaty with Mexico. Throughout Central and South America, in fact, politicians have found that denouncing the Yanqui pays off in votes. If such...
...country's three big tin companies. Twenty thousand black-shawled women and tin-helmeted men yelled vivas. A leather-jacketed Indian stepped to the President's side and sounded the ancient Inca battle call on a curved bull horn. That night bonfires burned all over the Bolivian Andes, and the cobbled streets of La Paz echoed with the din of jubilant partisans firing off the rifles and pistols they had seized from government arsenals and routed army units last April during the uprising of Paz Estenssoro's totalitarian Movement of National Revolution...
Time to Restrain. In the hope of striking such a bargain, President Paz Estenssoro has offered engineers and other foreign employees of the three companies security of tenure, salary and other contract benefits if they will keep on working for the government's newly constituted Bolivian Mining Corp. But coming to terms with the tin barons and their experts may not be the President's toughest problem. Speaking to the miners at Catavi last week, Labor Boss Juan Lechin, Bolivia's left-wing Minister of Mines, said: "Nationalization must be carried out without payment to the thieving...
...government in Bolivia took over his mines under a nationalization decree (see HEMISPHERE), Bolivian Tin King Antenor Patińo was in Manhattan in the process of being parted from some of his fortune. A few hours before he planned to fly to Paris, he was haled into court by his Spanish-born wife and charged with being $400,000 behind in support payments. She wanted a settlement before he left the country. "I'm going to ... Paris this afternoon," pleaded Patińo. "No, you're not," snapped the judge. "You're going to city prison...
Described, not unkindly, as "a Bolivian concept of a Swiss federation adapted to an African absolute monarchy," the partnership of Ethiopia and Eritrea should have practical advantages. Landlocked Ethiopia has the resources of soil and climate to become East Africa's breadbasket. Eritrea has better-trained labor and coastal ports on the Red Sea. The federation's success, said departing Commissioner Anze Matienzo pointedly, depends on Ethiopia's "respect for Eritrea's constitutional progress and autonomy...