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...heart of a 970,000-acre oil concession, deep in the green hell of Bolivia's Gran Chaco Province. McCarthy has found a promising oil and gas field, there drilled three wells. The problem is to get the oil out. With his fresh money, McCarthy plans to build a feeder pipeline, tie in with a Bolivian pipeline recently completed to within 15 miles of his properties. Said McCarthy, as cocky as ever: "I want to speed things up down there. There's enough oil there to build bigger and better Shamrocks...
...side of the capital's steep, cobbled streets to make way for Fords and Cadillacs. Government officials, demanding emancipation from the tyranny of tin, urge Bolivians to look eastward to the regions where the Andes fall away in giant green gorges called yungas to the Amazonian jungles and Chaco plains. With the aid of a $26 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, Bolivia hopes to finish a highway linking the mountain cities with Santa Cruz, capital of the plains, by late 1953. Brazil and Argentina are busy building railroads across the Chaco (see map) to open the area...
After the last bitter defeat by Paraguay in the Chaco war (1932-35), Bolivians took up ideas of social revolution from both right & left. Marxist socialism penetrated the universities. Officers of the defeated army organized totalitarian dictatorships. One dictator, pro-Nazi President Gualberto Villaroel, was overthrown after World War II in a fashion so violent that all the world remembers him-hanged from a lamp post before his palace. The downtrodden tin miners, finding a leader of their own in a magnetic, Marxist-minded ex-soccer star named Juan Lechin, rallied to his union and fought bloody battles with company...
...moving toward a syndicalist state," Juan Perón told trade union leaders after his re-election last November. A month later, without inviting or even informing opposition parties, his government in the remote Chaco territory along the Paraguayan border, 450 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, staged a constituent assembly and swiftly enacted a constitution. Thereupon, Chaco territory became Argentina's 18th province -Presidente Perón Province...
Left to himself, Urriolagoitia might have felt obliged to hand over power to the M.N.R. As it was, he was only too glad to bow out and let the army take over. Result: one of the quietest revolutions in Latin American history. Brigadier General Hugo Ballivián, 49, Chaco War hero, became head of a ten-man junta (three generals, seven colonels). Ex-President Urriolagoitia rode peacefully from the palace to the airport, boarded a plane for Arica, Chile. Not a shot was fired...