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...controversial land-reform program. Despite the public nature of the killings, TIME Correspondent James Willwerth has learned that if the U.S. Government had not tracked down the waitress, bolstered her courage, persuaded her to testify and actively pressured the Salvadoran government, authorities would not have arrested Ricardo Sol Meza, a wealthy industrialist, and Hans Christ, a businessman. Christ was picked up by the FBI in Miami and is now being held pending the outcome of extradition proceedings...
This most recent reprieve is contingent on prior fulfillment of an IMF stabilization plan that Garcia Meza first tried to impose in January. IMF intervention in the Bolivian economy has a long history of detrimental effects on the popular sectors and the latest IMF conditions are no exception. In January, economic degrees resulted in severe inflation of necessary goods and wage freezes. Workers all over Bolivia went on strike in spontaneous protest. A new attempt to comply with IMF mandates will surely bring more political problems for Garcia Meza...
...survival of Garcia Meza's regime also depends on diplomatic recognition from key developed countries. Joining the international outery against Garcia Meza in July, former president Carter withdrew the U.S. ambassador and suspended all "non-humanitarian" economic aid. Reagan's election has diminished hopes that this expression of opposition will continue. In a recent Commentary article U. N. representative Jeane Kirkpatrick advocates support of Garcia Meza's regime and argues that the human rights violations are not significant. Shortly after the article was published, nine Leftist leaders were massacred by the government...
...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 the Bolivian mafia so pervasive and well-connected, any thought of internal drug enforcement...
Outraged by the drug connection, U.S. congressmen have organized opposition to the Garcia Meza regime. Sen. Dennis De Concinni (R-Ariz.), one of the most vocal opponents, contends that cocaine elites actually prop up the government, referring to an alleged $70 million emergency grant given by those involved in the illicit trade to avert an impending economic crisis. De Concinni and others also demanded that the most blatant drug traders be removed from the government, a condition that Garcia Meza met last month by dismissing Colonels Arce Gomez and Coca. The Bolivian government propbably will continue to comply with...