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...determined resistance from miners, urban workers, and campesinos was no match for brute military force. Three weeks after the coup the military had forced workers back to their jobs, cleared road blockades and restored the flow of produce to the cities. Under direct supervision from the Argentinian military, the Bolivian repressive apparatus became more thorough and astute. In the cities, specially trained para-military forces made surprise raids during the night, systematically terrorizing anyone thought capable of providing leadership to the resistance. Repression in the mines was less selective because opposition there had been more widespread and militant. Since international...
This most recent reprieve is contingent on prior fulfillment of an IMF stabilization plan that Garcia Meza first tried to impose in January. IMF intervention in the Bolivian economy has a long history of detrimental effects on the popular sectors and the latest IMF conditions are no exception. In January, economic degrees resulted in severe inflation of necessary goods and wage freezes. Workers all over Bolivia went on strike in spontaneous protest. A new attempt to comply with IMF mandates will surely bring more political problems for Garcia Meza...
...institutionalized, state-sponsored terrorism of the right wing. The resistance to recognize Bolivia stems not from human rights violations, but from concern about cocaine, produced in Bolivia and sold in the United States. Deep involvement of top-ranking officers in cocaine trade has been documented beyond doubt. Analysts of Bolivian polities suspect that control over this 800-million-dollar-a-year business was a central reason for the July coup...
Outraged by the drug connection, Sen. Dennis DeConcini (R-Ariz.) is attempting to mobilize U.S. opposition to the Bolivian regime. Future U.S. recognition of Bolivia depends largely on the outcome of this controversy: human rights is not an issue...
Continued U.S. non-recognition would be highly ironic. Just as the late Shah of Iran and Somoza of Nicaragua were U.S.-created dictators, so is the Bolivian military largely a product of U.S. foreign policy in the 50s and 60s. The 1952 revolution in Bolivia shook the U.S. government because major mines were nationalized, a peoples' militia were created, and workers obtained an important role in the new government. Over the next 18 years U.S. economic aid was contingent on the rebuilding of the military, and direct military aid during that period came to $56.6 million. Even more important, between...