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...Magnate. The Government had jailed the most active member of Bolivia's trinity of tin barons. The others: elderly Indian Simón Patiño (called one of the richest men in the world), who has not visited Bolivia since 1923; and elegant, Oxford-bred Carlos Victor Aramayo, who looks in remote La Paz like Anthony Eden in exile...
...Patiño's tin miners in Bolivia, whose cause Galarza had championed (TIME, Dec. 28), were back at work,* producing needed metal for the Allied war machine. Their demands for improvement of their substandard living conditions were as yet unanswered, though a special U.S. commission was preparing to investigate the dispute. By appointing such a commission, the U.S. Government had acknowledged a definite interest in the controversy, had shouldered a certain responsibility for its solution...
...Union was the one thing left for him to do, and none knew better than Ernesto Galarza that it probably was not enough. Many a knotty problem of Latin-American economy must be solved, many an involved question of Inter-American responsibility must be answered, before Simón Patiño's tin miners receive their...
...Government took immediate and drastic measures. Worried President Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo declared a state of siege throughout Bolivia, clamped martial law on the five tin-mining areas of the Patiño holdings. At week's end it was announced that a plot by Leftist Revolutionaries had been nipped in the bud. The plan, said the Government, was to cause the forces of the Bolivian army to be dispersed throughout the mining areas, then in provincial capitals, to create disturbances which would end in revolution. This week the Government announced the arrest of two Bolivian leaders...
From Paris many years ago, after a "Communist-inspired" strike in his mines had been put down by soldiers, Bolivian Ambassador Patiño cabled to an assistant in La Paz: "Arturito, cause to be opened the doors of my house. I want the people to see the beauties it contains." The stolid Indians looked at the sculptured halls, the marble bathtubs, the Renaissance gilding, the tapestry-hung walls. They grew angry, scribbled insulting verses, pointed caricatures. The palace doors were closed and have remained shut since...