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Said Galarza: "If the men have gone back, they have been starved back. I got down and talked with those Bolivian laborers. Most of them could neither read nor write. . . . But most of them talked warmly of President Roosevelt and Vice President Wallace. They knew what we were fighting for. ... I resolved that something must be done to help them...
Because of one thing Galarza chose to do, he got a letter from Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. The letter castigated Galarza for spreading charges that U.S. Ambassador Pierre de Lagarde Boal had intervened with the Bolivian Government against the strikers. Galarza answered: if an impartial jury could prove his charges erroneous, he would make a "complete retraction." His resignation from the Pan American Union was the one thing left for him to do, and none knew better than Ernesto Galarza that it probably was not enough. Many a knotty problem of Latin-American economy must be solved, many...
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...
...economics experts last September presented-and had approved by the Bolivian Congress-a draft of socio-economic proposals intended to raise living standards for Bolivians. The hopes that it provoked among the Indians added fuel to the flames of their dissatisfaction. Nazi agents, working on susceptible labor leaders, added their touch to the unrest. At the same time the Nazis urged the Government to take a firm attitude...