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President Victor Paz Estenssoro knew he would have his hands full one day last week. U.S. Senator Homer Capehart, chairman of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, a man who might influence future U.S. aid to needy Bolivia, was due in La Paz on a study trip. And police intelligence agents reported that a plot to overthrow the government, long simmering and long spied on by the cops, had been moved up to coincide with Capehart's visit...
Falange Party attacked the President's suburban home. Forewarned, Paz Estenssoro had long since slipped off to the presidential palace. The rebels went on to seize a police station. "We heard lots of shooting," said Capehart. By 9 o'clock, armed members of the pro-government unions had put down the minor revolt in the capital; then word came that the main uprising was at Cochabamba, 140 miles away. Battle Reports. Neither Capehart nor Paz Estenssoro scares easily, and they had business to attend to. Punctually at 10 a.m., Capehart arrived to keep his appointment with the President...
Asylum in B.V.D.'s. The revolt, the sixth attempt since Paz Estenssoro himself took power in the revolution of April 1952, was over, except for the usual scramble to safety by the defeated. Fifteen succeeded in getting to airfields, where they commandeered three planes and flew off to Peru and Chile. The revolt's leader. Oscar Unzaga de la Vega, dramatically appeared two days later clawing his way up a river bank behind the Uruguayan embassy for a successful dash to asylum inside. Another leader, in a hospital with wounds, dodged his guards one night, leaped from...
...revolution cost Bolivia 23 dead, 42 injured-and one newspaper destroyed. After freeing Lechin, Cochabamba's irregulars had gone on to wreck the offices of the anti-government Los Tiempos. Paz Estenssoro jailed hundreds of rebels and his government announced it would try 723 persons for rebellion. Senator Capehart, having seen a genuine South American revolution at first hand, packed up his notes and moved on to Chile...
Bolivia. The U.S. had to make "strong representations" protesting the seizure of tin mines, partly owned in the U.S.. by the revolutionary government of President Paz Estenssoro. But, said Cabot, "we believe it is sincere in desiring social progress and in opposing Communist imperialism." Bolivia passes, and will soon get $5,.000,000 in Foreign Operations Administration "famine relief" food and $4,000,000 from other FOA funds...