Word: bolivians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expert help in repression from the outside. The most likely accomplice is military-ruled Argentina, which was the first nation to recognize the new regime in La Paz. For years Argentina has maintained a mission of slightly more than a dozen intelligence officers in Bolivia, ostensibly to teach at Bolivian military institutions. Their ranks almost doubled before the coup...
...NATHAN HAGEN '81--"Free the Quincy House Two," someone shouted as state troopers led Stork and Hagen away from the dining hall theater. The name fit conveniently in headlines, but it didn't really match Stork and Hagen. Were they revolutionaires, they probably would have shown "The Bolivian Repression" to a crowd of seven. Their roles called instead for sincerity. They had to convince the audience they were the good guys, but not so all-American as to lose their seedy believability. They are plot devices really, showing the film and then making a few cameo appearances in court...
Argentine officials had nothing to say about the coup, which was immediately deplored by the governments of Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia, and by Peru's President-elect Fernando Belaúnde Terry. The Bolivian military's action was also strongly denounced by the U.S. State Department, which recalled Ambassador Marvin Weissman for "consultations" and cut off all military and economic aid to the strife-torn country...