Word: bolivians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More specific was the first real evidence of Castro guerrillas in Argentina. Last March Argentine national police captured six Castroites in a mountainous area of Salta province, near the Bolivian border. Over the next three months, the police captured 27 more and identified several marauding bands. The captured men, some of whom had Castro-style beards, wore olive-drab uniforms, black-and-red armbands, and called themselves the "People's Guerrilla Army." As in Venezuela's F.A.L.N. terrorist group, the men were between 25 and 35; at least one had been trained in Cuba, another was nicknamed...
Roads & Molasses. In his own heavy-handed way, Stroessner is actually trying to make good the boast. By imposing order on his violent little land, he has been able to push new roads through the hinterland to the Bolivian, Brazilian and Argentine borders. Following behind the bulldozers are settlers, clearing and cultivating the 40,000 plots of unused government land that have been distributed to peasant families. Lumber, beef and leather are growing businesses. Last year exports climbed to $40 million, highest since World War II, while imports fell enough to give the country its first trade surplus in five...
...mainly to himself. Federal and state investigators have just started adding up the totals. When Goulart fled, he was believed on the verge of completing the biggest land deal in Brazilian rural history - the acquisition of $1,385,000 worth of land in Mato Grosso state near the Bolivian border. What he already had latched onto, say the investigators, marked him as a wheeler-dealer without parallel...
...offending several prominent right-wing M.N.R. leaders, whose vice-presidential choice was General René Barrientos Ortuño, 44, Bolivia's crewcut, U.S.-trained air force commander. Unmoved by their protests, Paz was all set to send Barrientos into semi-exile as ambassador to London, a classic Bolivian ploy for settling intraparty disputes. Then, late one night last month, Barrientos was mysteriously ambushed and shot. The U.S. command pilot wings on his right chest deflected the bullet, and Barrientos was not seriously wounded. Instead, the assassination attempt made him a hero. Sniffing the wind, Paz persuaded Fort...
Castro Reconsidered. Paz and Barrientos together could well reshape Bolivian politics. Over the past two years, while striving to put the near-bankrupt nation on a solid economic footing, Paz has drawn away from his more radical advisers. Barrientos, the only political figure since the revolution who is outspokenly antiCommunist, argues that the government should break off diplomatic relations with Cuba. If he has his way, Bolivia's decision to sever ties with Castro might lead to new consideration of such action by some or all of the other four hemisphere holdouts: Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay...