Word: bolivians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recruiting 78,000 workers to go up the Amazon trail to the rubber grounds. Joâo Alberto knew that country: back in the '20s he had marched a column of revolutionists against Dictator Arthur da Silva Bernardes through nearly 950 miles of jungle and mountain to the Bolivian border, covering over 30 miles a day. Now he was thinking in terms of a rubber army. With the land of Brazil's Far West opened by modern transportation, developed by modern methods, Brazilians hoped to step the rubber output up to 50,000 tons by 1944, almost triple...
High up in the thin, cold air of the Bolivian Andes, shrewd Mestizo Simón I. Patiño built for himself and his family an empire of tin. It was founded on the peon labor of mountain Indians whose lowly wage offset the high cost of transporting Patiño's ores to world markets. The mines Patiño developed from the original holding he acquired from a debt-ridden Portuguese made him one of the richest men in the world. But last week the manner in which he got his wealth returned, to plague...
...throughout Bolivia, clamped martial law on the five tin-mining areas of the Patiño holdings. At week's end it was announced that a plot by Leftist Revolutionaries had been nipped in the bud. The plan, said the Government, was to cause the forces of the Bolivian army to be dispersed throughout the mining areas, then in provincial capitals, to create disturbances which would end in revolution. This week the Government announced the arrest of two Bolivian leaders, Leftist Revolutionary Fernando Sinani and Moises Alcoba, President of the Federation of Syndical Workers...
From Paris many years ago, after a "Communist-inspired" strike in his mines had been put down by soldiers, Bolivian Ambassador Patiño cabled to an assistant in La Paz: "Arturito, cause to be opened the doors of my house. I want the people to see the beauties it contains." The stolid Indians looked at the sculptured halls, the marble bathtubs, the Renaissance gilding, the tapestry-hung walls. They grew angry, scribbled insulting verses, pointed caricatures. The palace doors were closed and have remained shut since...
Last week the Bolivian workers remembered, and their resentment was wide and deep. The miners, after years of exploitation, were a fertile field for any agitator. But their grievances were real: food costs had soared far beyond the reach of their pittance, which in two years, despite increases of more than 50%, had barely moved above the real value of 20 to 30? a day for unskilled labor, slightly higher for skilled workmen...