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...government has long been a national sport in Bolivia. And denouncing subversive plots-real or imagined-is the government's favorite way of knocking off political enemies. Last week Air Force General René Barrientos, 45, head of the military junta that ousted President Víctor Paz Estenssoro last November, was suddenly crying plot as if he had invented the game. Barrientos' troops rounded up 26 of the ex-President's supporters and disarmed the 2,000-man national police. The cops, fumed Barrientos, while calling for reorganization of the force, were at the center...
Guns & Burs. Was it on the level? Barrientos offered no convincing evidence of imminent revolution. But there could be no question about the loyalties of the national police. Paz Estenssoro created the police as his private political militia and as a counterweight to the military. Only Paz's abrupt departure prevented a bitter showdown between the police and the regular army; ever since, Paz's boys in green have ached to avenge him. This month when the army turned up two caches of machine guns, rifles and ammunition buried under police barracks in La Paz, Barrientos decided...
Schools & Skills. In Argentina, where women now account for almost 35% of the total work force, the Federation of Business and Professional Women has grown to 400 members. Bolivia's La Paz University currently counts 543 female students, a fourfold increase since 1950; the number of women in the schools of commerce has jumped 20-fold in five years. At Caracas' Central University, girls outnumber boys 2 to 1 in dentistry, 4 to 1 in pharmacy...
Rioters had opened the jails, spilling hundreds of criminals onto the streets. A mob ransacked Paz Estenssoro's home so completely that even the toilets were carried away. The stories circulating about the ex-President verged on the ludicrous, among them that he had stolen four times the national budget in U.S. aid funds...
...wake of it all, Barrientos seemed at a loss about what to do, or even where to start. He kept repeating his democratic ideals and desires for economic stability. "Bolivia," he insisted, "must keep particularly close relations with the U.S." He talked about disarming both the peasant militia of Paz Estenssoro and the militant tin min ers of Leftist Juan Lechín to avoid fur ther trouble. Yet he allowed Lechín to grab control of all the country's most important unions, bowed even further by promising the unions joint control with management in running...