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...Hemisphere picks up the trail of the latest head of state to visit Washington, Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro, but bases the main part of the story on a look at the poverty-stricken country that has persuaded the U.S. to allocate it more aid per capita than any other Latin American nation...
Back in Washington, the President greeted visiting Bolivian President Victor Paz Estenssoro on the White House south lawn (see THE HEMISPHERE). In a speech before the National Academy of Sciences he promised that henceforward the Government would explain in advance its major scientific experiments in order to "assure expert review before potentially risky experiments are undertaken...
Potatoes for Survival. Last week Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro, 56, flew to the U.S. for a state visit. Most inhabitants of the altiplano-who don't even know what goes on in La Paz-were unaware that he had gone. It is spring in the Southern Hemisphere, and the Indians are plowing and planting. As their ancestors have done for centuries, those fortunate enough to own oxen bedecked the horns with white streamers and draped their backs with magenta cloth to bring luck. Those without animals simply tore at the grey earth with metal-tipped wooden...
...Estenssoro's goal is to make the tin mines profitable again by modernizing equipment and de-featherbedding payrolls. If he succeeds, that will be an important victory for him and for Bolivia. Before Bolivia's 1952 revolution, led by Paz Estenssoro, the tin mines produced the ore equivalent of about 30,000 tons of tin a year, accounted for the greater part of the nation's foreign exchange. Within a few years after the triumphant revolution nationalized the mines, production and efficiency sank to the point where the mines ceased to be profitable. In recent years, they...
Point of Definition. Catavi, the country's largest single tin-mine complex, seemed a good place to start. It accounted for 30% of Comibol's operating losses, and half of its 7,000 employees were superfluous. "Be firm, don't weaken," Paz Estenssoro said to Comibol's President Guillermo Bedregal...