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Back to his capital, La Paz, after a visit to Brazil went President Enrique Peñaranda of Bolivia last week, his face wreathed in the most satisfied smile any Bolivian President has worn in years. In his pocket were trade agreements just concluded with his big neighbor to the east. The chief prize: Bolivian rights to use the Brazilian port of Santos as a free port, thus gaining an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean...
...Alaska-born Anabel Simpson worked four years in the Territory, most recently for the Army engineers who built our air base at Anchorage. . . . Chile-born Paz Davila turned 21 just this week, but she has traveled through Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and every Central American country except Costa Rica, visited Europe and Africa, lived four years in diplomatic Washington, and knows scores of Latin American newsmakers...
Wiry "Palito" (Little Stick) Ramirez was born 59 years ago in meat-packing La Paz in Entre Rios Province. He was grandson of a farmer, son of the chief of police. There he played and fought with Saba and Benito Sueyro, today the Vice President and Minister of Marine respectively. Later, in military school in Buenos Aires, a close friend was Arturo Rawson, the two-day President. As a young lieutenant, Palito was sent to learn with Kaiser Wilhelm's 5th Hussars. Well trained, Lieut. Ramirez returned home, devoted himself to rising via captain and colonel to general...
...uneasiness. Peruvian imperialists and rightist Chileans sensed in General Peñaranda's Washington visit a bid for a Bolivian port on the Pacific (Arica on Chile's northern boundary). They recalled the poetic prayer addressed to Vice President Wallace during his recent visit by the La Paz daily Ultima Hora: "Oh, Henry Wallace, Prophet and Redeemer, Philosopher and friend of man . . . the oldest country of the South now hears the voice of Hirakocha, the God of the Andes: 'People of the mountains, look to the Ocean.... If the Ocean does not come to reach...
Last week the report was released in La Paz. Most of the fears turned out to have been unnecessary. An impartial U.S.Bolivian Commission of jurists, unionists, industrialists and Government economists found many an example of outrageous exploitation, many a sore spot in the Bolivian economy. But the authors of the report also demonstrated an intelligent awareness that the root causes lay deep in centuries of poverty and inevitably slow development. In its sum, the report was at once an indictment of those who now exploit these conditions, and a challenge to all the Americas to raise the standards of substandard...