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Operation Triangular. Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro may have been less surprised than many of his countrymen. He is a cautious man who refrains from making important moves until he feels sure the odds are with...
Maria Teresa was married to President Victor Paz Estenssoro in 1955, having first met him during a post-college stint as an airline hostess. She speaks fluent English and French, is an avid reader in both languages (favorite authors: Graham Greene, Albert Camus), collects paintings by Bolivian artists, is an enthusiastic theatergoer. She is also the hard-working head of the Costurero del Niño (literally, children's sewing box), a charitable organization that distributed clothes to 50,000 underprivileged children last Christmas. For her three daughters, aged three, five, and seven, who have been given a strict...
...Bolivia, Castro agents working out of the Cuban embassy hatched a plot with local Communists to overturn the government of Reformer-President Victor Paz Estenssoro with a "hunger march" on the capital by striking leftist tin miners. Forewarned, the Bolivian government declared a state of siege, rounded up the chief conspirators and called out a well-armed militia of nonstriking workers to block all roads into the capital. The march fizzled...
President Kennedy has read and endorsed the fact-finding team's blueprint. The immediate hurdle is Bolivian President Paz Estenssoro's willingness to risk the first politically unpopular step of making the mines more efficient. The miners are well armed and defiantly opposed to wholesale dismissals. However, President Paz Estenssoro, the man who led the 195 2 revolution, realizes that his movement will fail unless Bolivia solves its problems, and soon. Even the tin miners' Lechin, now the nation's Vice President, may understand that time is growing short. Visiting in Washington six weeks ago, Lechin...
...airport terminal. Later, a TNT bomb was tossed into the courtyard of the U.S. embassy, shattering windows but fortunately injuring no one. It was the third incident against Ambassador Carl Strom in less than two months, and the government of Bolivia's pro-West President Victor Paz Estenssoro was forced to issue its official regrets...