Word: bolivians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bolivian team-four marksmen, a fencer and a champion walker named Osvaldo MorejÓn-protested. Asked Victor Hugo Campos, one of the marksmen: "How are we to improve our record if we don't attend any major competitions?" The argument won over Bolivian President Hernán Siles Zuazo. On Friday he told the team it could go to Los Angeles...
While the Andean country's borrowings are dwarfed by those of such neighbors as Brazil ($96 billion) and Argentina ($43.6 billion), the Bolivian action nonetheless shook moneymen. Phone calls from anxious foreigners flooded embassies, newspapers and government agencies in the capital city of La Paz. On Wall Street, prices slid further on a bond market still edgy over last month's near collapse of Chicago's Continental Illinois...
...Bolivia, the government move drew an angry response from former Finance Minister Flavio Machicado, who two weeks ago quit the Cabinet of President Hernan Siles Zuazo. Machicado charged that the President had caved in to pressure from the powerful Bolivian Cen tral Labor Union, which led an April gen eral strike to protest belt-tightening mea sures demanded by the International Monetary Fund. Said Machicado: "This renegotiation idea is absurd...
...Germany after World War II and for four years hid him from the French, who were eager to prosecute him. In 1951 his Army protectors helped Barbie escape to Bolivia, where he prospered and traveled as a free man until last February, when a new Bolivian regime turned him over to France. Ryan's report concluded that the Army was guilty of an "obstruction of justice and an unlawful act." Said Ryan: "Justice delayed is justice denied. We have delayed justice in Lyon for 33 years...
...begins 2,500 miles southwest of Florida, on the eastern slopes of the Andes Mountains. The cash-crop cultivation of coca is divided primarily between Bolivia (86,000 acres) and Peru (123,000 acres). The DEA, which has five agents in each country, estimates that 23,000 Bolivian peasant families depend on coca for their livelihoods, and that the crop generates nearly $1 billion a year for Peru, where the entire national budget is just over $5 billion. But the business is controlled by Colombians. All but a small fraction of cocaine headed for the U.S. comes first to Colombia...