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What Barbie never counted on was a shift of power away from the old-style right-wing dictatorships. On October 10, 1982, Hernan Siles Zuazo, leader of a left-wing coalition, ascended to the Presidency. Barbie's Bolivian days were numbered as soon as the new government in La Paz demonstrated its intention to make amends for the past and clean up Bolivia's image as a Nazi haven. And Barbie blundered: following the death of his wife from cancer and the loss of his son in a plane crash the year before, the once nimble war criminal decided...
...Viloco, a mining community of 4000 inhabitants, both miners and campesinos had been anxiously awaiting the fulfillment of the previous month's democratic elections in which Hernan Siles Zuazo, a center-left candidate, had won a clear plurality. Zuazo was to be inaugurated August 6. When news of the military coup reached Viloco, the response was swift and unanimous. The miners' union called a general strike and formed a 12-member steering committee to coordinate the resistance. The committee included representatives of miners, their wives and relavaderos, Marginal workers not formally hired by the mining company. Action was taken immediately...
...Hernan Siles Zuazo, who won the election in June of last year, had promised to clamp down on the cocaine traders. The statement may have lacked conviction, but the military leaders were not willing to risk their 800 million per year business to find out. The subsequent coup brought to power a cocaine mafia that includes even the president Luis Garcia Meza. Informants within Bolivia report that cocaine production now has become centralized, efficient and much more tightly controlled. The losers are Indian peasants, who no longer can afford to chew coca because its price has risen astronomically. With...
...months, a total of 189 since the country became independent in 1825. Yet the Garcia Meza junta has shown itself to be unusually vicious. After gaining control of most of the country on July 17, it claimed that "electoral fraud" had given a plurality of votes to leftist Candidate Hernan Siles Zuazo in the June presidential elections. Because none of the candidates had won a majority, congress was to have chosen a President in early August. Siles Zuazo was expected to win easily, and would undoubtedly have picked new military chiefs. When the military stepped in, Siles Zuazo went into...
...wildest country and among the wildest people we have ever seen," wrote one of Conquistador Hernan Cortes' commanders about Guatemala in 1524. It was only the first of many unflattering stereotypes of Central America. In the U.S. in the 1850s, the heyday of Manifest Destiny, the region was regarded chiefly as an inviting target for territorial expansion. By the turn of the century, the United Fruit Co. was cheered on as it went buccaneering through the region, buying governmental favors for the sake of more and cheaper bananas. Bananas, in fact, were the raison...