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...force general who bosses Bolivia's revolutionary junta, is a sort of Steve Canyon of the Andes - handsome, dashing, and almost too lucky to be true. Since 1962, he has survived seven assassination at tempts: four by gunfire, three by bombs. Last year, just after President Victor Paz Estenssoro refused to accept Barrientos as a vice-presidential candidate, an assailant's bullet ricocheted off the U.S. pilot wings on the general's jacket, causing a slight wound. The incident made Barrientos such a hero that Paz was forced to accept him as a running mate. Last week...
...burst on the scene three years ago after two recruits died in practice jumps with malfunctioning parachutes. When newspapers thundered about inferior equipment, Air Force Chief Barrientos invited news men to pick a chute from the same batch that the recruits had used. He then bailed out over La Paz airport. The whole country cheered his courage, and before long he was making speeches calling for reform and denouncing Bolivia's politicians. Then the assassination attempts began. One bomb exploded in his auto (he was elsewhere), another went off under his bed (he was not home), a Molotov cocktail...
...BOLIVIA has come a long way since 1948, when a La Paz newspaper carried an advertisement: "For sale-200 hectares of land, 47 hogs, 83 Indians." Since the 1952 revolution that toppled the country's feudal tin barons, the Spanish criollos, who make up a mere 15% of the country's 4,000,000 people, no longer traffic in serfs, and most Indians have their own plot of land. Yet, on the 12,000-ft. Andean plateau, where 75% of Bolivians live, the peasants still sleep on dried llama fetuses to cure what ails them, still subsist mainly...
...service? The couplings on many passenger coaches are so faulty that the locomotive sometimes chugs out of the station leaving the cars behind. Trains from La Paz, Bolivia, and Asunción, Paraguay, often arrive three days late; the 250-mile trip from Santa Fe south to Buenos Aires often takes 14 hours and sometimes more. Cattlemen have angrily protested to the government about cattle trains from the pampas that arrive at the stockyards with 20% of the livestock dead...
Guarantees & Incentive. His recently organized party, the Popular Christian Movement, is small; but Barrientos has won support from the Christian Democrats, Social Christians and the right-wing Falange. He preaches anti-Communism and friendship for the U.S.-just as Paz did. But he decries what he calls Paz's "corruption" and "police-state control." Says his Minister of Economy: "What we want is a mixed economy with guarantees and incentives for private enterprise, and the government as promoter and regulator...