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...Nazi President Gualberto Villaroel, was overthrown after World War II in a fashion so violent that all the world remembers him-hanged from a lamp post before his palace. The downtrodden tin miners, finding a leader of their own in a magnetic, Marxist-minded ex-soccer star named Juan Lechin, rallied to his union and fought bloody battles with company-paid army garrisons...
...year or more. But what will happen when the Bolivian tin miners discover that working for the government is sadly like working for Patiño? When the Paz regime was organized, a diplomat observed: "There is a time bomb in that cabinet, and his name is Juan Lechin." Now Minister of Mines as well as boss of the tin miners' union. Lechin is the second most powerful man in Bolivia...
...contract benefits if they will keep on working for the government's newly constituted Bolivian Mining Corp. But coming to terms with the tin barons and their experts may not be the President's toughest problem. Speaking to the miners at Catavi last week, Labor Boss Juan Lechin, Bolivia's left-wing Minister of Mines, said: "Nationalization must be carried out without payment to the thieving tin barons." Now, more than ever, Paz Estenssoro's chances of bringing off a miracle, of taking over tin without wrecking his country's precarious economy, depended...
...showdown cabinet meeting last week, Lechin backed down. Afterwards, addressing 15,000 partisans with Paz Estenssoro, he made a mild speech terming nationalization "an act of national defense." Later he added: "We shall nationalize, but we shall have to study the matter. Surely no one thought I was serious when I mentioned 30 days...
After last month's bloody triumph, Bolivia's new revolutionary regime split over the question of how fast to nationalize the all-important tin mining industry. Juan Lechin, tough boss of the republic's 40,000 tin miners and the new Minister of Mines, demanded swift action, and talked as though the job could be done in a month or so. But President Victor Paz Estenssoro insisted that nationalization must be carried out slowly and cautiously...