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After asking a friend to call his wife in Buenos Aires to tell her that he would not be home for the weekend after all, Scott caught the next jet to Lima, Peru, which promised the best connection into Bolivia's capital of La Paz. While he was in the air, the Bolivian situation was indeed coming apart, and TIME'S stringer there, Walter Montenegro, who had gone back to his native country in the past year after twelve years on the staff of LIFE EN ESPANOL in New York, was dodging rifle fire to keep New York...
...ground in Lima, Scott learned that President Victor Paz Estenssoro had fled Bolivia, and he immediately began to speculate on where Paz might go. Before long one of his sources tipped him off to exactly where. Scott rushed back to the Lima airport and there saw Paz dashing away from the terminal in a Cadillac. He traced Paz to a suburban Lima hotel, and was soon getting a whimsical greeting from the exiled President, who wanted to know why Scott hadn't made it to Bolivia before the coup began. "Where were you?" he joshed. "What happened...
After he got the exiled President's side of the story, Scott's next aim was to get to La Paz to join forces with Montenegro. Following a considerable delay because all flights had been canceled, Scott finally touched down at the 13,358-ft.-high airport in La Paz, his 18th landing there in the last 18 months. Before long he was talking with the new head of the government, General Rene Barrientos, who had once jokingly told Scott: "If you come here much more often, we're going to nationalize you." Scott found Barrientos uncertain...
...conferences in the presidential palace continued almost without a break for 48 hours as the military revolt spread across the country. Finally, rather than risk a full-scale civil war, Victor Paz Estenssoro, 57, President of Bolivia, climbed into his bulletproof Cadillac lor a tire-screeching ride to La Paz's El Alto Airport. There, pale and somber, he followed his beautiful wife Maria Teresa, 32, and four children aboard a military C-47 and flew off to exile in Lima, Peru. The camera of the lone photographer who snapped the departure was seized by an air force officer...
Thus ended, at least temporarily, the political career of one of Latin America's most fascinating and controversial statesmen. Paz was one of the organizers of the 1952 revolt that overturned the tin barons and emancipated the Bolivian population from virtual serfdom. As President for all but four years since then, he pushed through needed tax reforms, redistributed land, built roads and hospitals, and began a program to resettle 500,000 Bolivians from the barren plateau to the more fertile valleys. A firm friend of the U.S., he gave ardent support to the Alliance for Progress, created so favorable...