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...ground in Lima, Scott learned that President Victor Paz Estenssoro had fled Bolivia, and he immediately began to speculate on where Paz might go. Before long one of his sources tipped him off to exactly where. Scott rushed back to the Lima airport and there saw Paz dashing away from the terminal in a Cadillac. He traced Paz to a suburban Lima hotel, and was soon getting a whimsical greeting from the exiled President, who wanted to know why Scott hadn't made it to Bolivia before the coup began. "Where were you?" he joshed. "What happened...
Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro, 57, lives on top of a volcano. In his three terms of office since 1952, he has made so many political enemies that he is a virtual prisoner of his bodyguards. He dares not leave the country for fear of a revolution, and he spends so much time keeping order in his bleak and violent Andean nation that he cannot really concentrate on the basic economic problems that cry for attention...
...campesinos fired into a mob of rioting students, killing one of the youths. That was all it took to trigger an open revolt by students, miners and agitators of every stripe. In mining centers, union radios crackled with calls for "popular rebellion" against "the bloody tyrant and assassin Paz Estenssoro." Lechin's well-armed miners fought pitched battles with government troops, and the first casualty reports told of some 50 dead...
...regime of President Victor Paz Estenssoro accused Siles of plotting to overthrow the government, install himself at the head of a junta and assassinate Paz. Nonsense, retorted Siles from Paraguay. He insisted that no coup had been planned and that the Paz government was badly "confused...
...maintain its Havana embassy where some two dozen anti-Castro Cubans are currently in asylum. Chile's problem was its nip-and-tuck September 4 presidential election; a vote for sanctions might hand the presidency to a far leftist. As for Bolivia, President Víctor Paz Estenssoro has been winning his fight against his country's far leftists, but still did not feel strong enough to go along with the majority...