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...grab-bag M.N.R., called Fascist until it seized power in a revolt in 1952, has two main factions: 1) moderate leftists, 2) Trotskyite doctrinaires. The Trotskyites, led by Juan Lechin, were kept in line by President Victor Paz Estenssoro and Foreign Minister Guevara, both moderates. Two weeks ago the M.N.R., in convention, chose another moderate, Vice President Hernan Siles Zuazo, as the party's candidate for the forthcoming presidential elections. Then, as the convention went on, Guevara and Lechin began trading verbal blows from the floor...
...palace. Early reports received there indicated that Cochabamba's central plaza, prefecture and air base had fallen to the rebels. Coolly Paz Estenssoro turned to explain his country's towering economic problems to his visitor. More dispatches came in: Minister of Mines and Petroleum Juan Lechin, in Cochabamba for a visit, had been captured by a rebel band...
...revolution cost Bolivia 23 dead, 42 injured-and one newspaper destroyed. After freeing Lechin, Cochabamba's irregulars had gone on to wreck the offices of the anti-government Los Tiempos. Paz Estenssoro jailed hundreds of rebels and his government announced it would try 723 persons for rebellion. Senator Capehart, having seen a genuine South American revolution at first hand, packed up his notes and moved on to Chile...
...Bolivia as a dictator. The late Gualberto Villaroel was not pro-Nazi; in fact, he was one of the few men in all Latin America who clung consistently to the view that the democracies would win World War II. Nor can I subscribe to the implication that Juan Lechin, the Minister of Mines, is a radical . . . Nevertheless, the entire story shows clearly that the Bolivian situation was approached objectively, and that an attempt was made to get at the facts and to appraise them without bias. Consequently, I cannot object to some of your fundamental conclusions...
...been able to control and even use him. But back of Lechin are Communist labor leaders, who also plan to use him. Such Marxists are spreading the word among Bolivia's Indians that land reform is next, and a restlessness has already been noted on the altiplano. If Paz shoots the nationalist wad and fails, the door to Marxist revolution may be blown wide open. And if the Reds sneak in, Bolivia will indeed be back on the map of the world's trouble spots...