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...death. The army denied reports of the execution; yet the doctors who examined him claimed that Che had died 24 hours after his capture. With a bullet in his heart, he could never have lived that long. Flying into Valle Grande from La Paz, Armed Forces Chief General Alfredo Ovando added to the confusion by claiming that Che had said after his capture: "I am Che. I have failed." More likely, the cocky Che would have spit defiance or, if too weak from his wounds, simply remained silent...
...first glance, it looked like a classic Latin American power grab. A long line of cars pulled up to the La Paz military airport, and Army General Alfredo Ovando escorted Air Force General René Barrientos to the steps of a waiting C-54. Moments later, Barrientos was on his way to Switzerland. Only a few days before, Barrientos and Ovando had been co-Presidents of Bolivia's 14-month-old military junta. Now, there was only Ovando...
...government candidate (Ovando isn't interested) and Bolivia's most popular and colorful figure, Barrientos seems to have a clear field in the elections. Assuming, that is, that he does not kill himself on one of his barnstorming tours. As one of his friends comments: "Only a dead Barrientos will quit trying to be President...
...have ruled the mines, and no government has dared call a halt to the appalling featherbedding, inefficiency and spiraling wages, which result in losses of more than $6,000,000 annually. No government, that is, except the present military junta headed by Co-Presidents René Barrientos and Alfredo Ovando Candia. Last May the two generals drew up a harsh but workable plan to rehabilitate the mines, then sent troops into action when the miners rebelled. Last week new fighting broke out at the country's most troublesome mine, the Catavi-Siglo Veinte complex, 175 miles southeast...
...chief of the government's Comibol mining enterprise declared that Catavi-Siglo Veinte was being closed "temporarily" because of "extremist agitators." But the next day, Co-Presidents Barrientos and Ovando ordered the mining complex reopened. Troops had already rooted out the troublemakers and packed 300 of them off to government colonization projects in the country's rugged north. Clearly, there was more behind the uprising than a local labor dispute. "Wages are not really important," admitted one union leader. "What we want is the overthrow of the military dictatorship...