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Simon Patiño, the world's richest Bolivian, returned to Manhattan from Panama last week at a critical moment in U.S.-Bolivian relations. U.S. industry badly needs Bolivian tungsten, in which Patiño has an interest, and Bolivian tin ore, over half of which he controls. Last week the U.S. arranged to get the tungsten, but it is still not getting...
Cynical Americans could conclude that the Bolivian Government is still a Patiño government, although Patiño has not set foot in the country for 17 years. Equally cynical Bolivians, on the other hand, deduced that the U.S. was run by the Rockefellers. This mutual misunderstanding made an enlightening case history in the shortcomings of U.S.-Latin American relations...
...anonymous. He never held his own press conference, never sent out his own press releases. Even after the President gave him the RFC chairmanship (which Jesse wanted to keep in his own collection of titles), Jones was still his boss. Schram's thwarted feeling probably mounted during the Bolivian tin negotiations, which Jesse handled in such a way that Bolivian tin is still not being commercially smelted...
Fortunately the average Bolivian does not have much time for this sort of thing, but the Germans must be pretty hard up for propaganda when they pick up such, an awful piece of work...
...Signature is that of a U. S. businessman working in the Bolivian capital...