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Sure enough, when Garcia heard details of a swindle in the government's farm-credit agency, he fired all the top directors and installed a nonpolitical board of governors. He did the same with the government-run National Marketing Corp. Next he turned to the Cabinet itself, firing Secretary...
Your article in the June 15 issue regarding my son Jaime Laredo [Bolivian violinist winner of the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Competition] has a misinformation about the help received from the Bolivian government. Instead of $600 a year, it is $300 a month.
"It's not so bad when your hands are wobbling, but when your feet start wobbling, too . . ." On that nervous note, the teen-age Bolivian violinist walked onto the stage of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels to play before the world's toughest violin jury* in...
The son of a gifted Bolivian pianist, Jaime was reading music by the time he was four, received a violin when he was six and tuned it without help, correctly pointing out that the family piano was flat. The Laredos sold their house in Bolivia, finally settled in Philadelphia, where...
Jaime's family has scrimped and saved to keep him in catgut. His father padded out an annual $600 allowance, given Jaime by the Bolivian government, with jobs as a theater usher, truck driver and (currently) laboratory clerk in a Philadelphia hospital. The trip to Brussels was made possible...