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Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro, 57, lives on top of a volcano. In his three terms of office since 1952, he has made so many political enemies that he is a virtual prisoner of his bodyguards. He dares not leave the country for fear of a revolution, and he spends so much time keeping order in his bleak and violent Andean nation that he cannot really concentrate on the basic economic problems that cry for attention...
Friends & Fallout. Once, Paz and Siles were allies, together led the 1952 revolution that toppled the feudal tin-mining aristocracy and installed the National Revolutionary Movement that has ruled Bolivia ever since. Paz was President from 1952 to 1956, then turned over power to Siles for four years before becoming President again in 1960. In the early days, it was more or less a government by committee, no matter who occupied the presidential palace. When Paz decided to run again in last May's election despite a tradition against consecutive terms, he and Siles fell...
Siles accused Paz of personalisimo. At election time, Siles joined Juan Lechín, leftist boss of the tin miners, in a hunger strike, hoping to dramatize his thesis that Paz was becoming a dictator. When that failed, he set out to organize an opposition...
Bombs & Strikes. It was hardly a unified group, comprising disgruntled tin miners, a small group of right-wing Socialist Falange Party members, and anyone else with a grievance against Paz. But the malcontents did make trouble. The capital city of La Paz rocked to frequent bomb explosions, bridges were blown up, and in the eastern jungle area of Santa Cruz, Falange guerrillas took advantage of local unrest to kick up a series of bloody skirmishes with government troops. Last December the tin miners took 17 hostages (including four Americans) in a dispute over government arrests of two union leaders...
...this was likely to imply that Paz did not have full control of the country, and that would not do, especially with Charles de Gaulle expected early this week. Using the alleged coup as an excuse, Paz declared a 90-day state of siege, suspending all constitutional guarantees and banning public groups of more than three after 11 p.m. That done, the way was clear for De Gaulle, and Paz had once more firmly cinched his authority...