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...mines on a money-making basis. "We made the miners understand that it was not the army that was defeating them but, instead, that they themselves were defeating the corrupt union leaders who had used them for their own political purposes," said Barrientos, who, along with co-President Alfredo Ovando, flew to the mines shortly after the fighting ended to explain the government's policy...
Planning to Stay. The junta's success" with the mines has sent Barrientos' popularity soaring to new heights and, for a time at least, silenced criticism by the country's normally noisy political parties. One day last week he flew with co-President Ovando to the country's historic capital of Sucre to talk about his own version of the Great Society. "The Second Republic," he declared, "will be a new fatherland, where everybody will live together free from fear and poverty. Just as we have eradicated Communism and anarchy, we shall clean...
...face of it, the ceremony last week seemed to indicate that Rene Barrientos was no longer the No. 1 man in Bolivia. Army Chief Ovando has been pressuring Barrientos to share power ever since the November coup that toppled President Victor Paz Estenssoro. But things are not always what they seem in Bolivia's dizzying Andean atmosphere. After a week of bloody revolt and political confusion, there were at least as many reasons to believe that the promotion was largely a Barrientos maneuver designed to remove his rival from active command and prepare the Bolivian army for a final...
Attack on the Mines. Barrientos made up his mind to have it out with the miners three weeks ago when he exiled Leftist Union Leader Juan Lechin and announced a campaign to reorganize the overstaffed, money-losing mines (TIME, May 28). At the start, Ovando seemed to back him fully. As union radios at the mines blared a call to revolt, some-1,000 army troops marched into the town of Oruro, killing six miners in a two-hour pitched battle. Another 2,500 soldiers captured four union strongholds in the mining districts and moved to within H miles...
Before long, fighting flared in half a dozen areas around the country. Red-led factory workers poured out of the industrial district north of La Paz, blew up a railroad bridge, and cut the only road connecting the city to its airport. Ovando rushed 3,000 troops to the area, and two air force F-51s snarled down to strafe sniper roosts. The factory workers refused to surrender, and as the dead and wounded were carried back to La Paz, Ovando seemed to lose his nerve, retiring to his bed and announcing that he was sick. Next...