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...Raul Penaranda, a Bolivian journalist, is an International Nieman Fellow at Harvard...
Latin Americans sometimes call Bolivia the "loose kidney of South America." This week she underwent a minor operation: a pre-dawn revolution staged by Army and Nationalist groups. President Enrique Penaranda was deposed, and a junta led by bespectacled Professor Victor Paz Estenssoro took over. "The new government," said Professor Paz quickly, "in no case will alter the position [of Bolivia] on the side of the United Nations...
...Deputies. The strike was that of Tin King Simon I. Patino's miners (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942); the uproar came when leaders of Bolivia's extremist parties accused the Government of responsibility for the bloodshed that followed Army intervention.* Under the barrage of criticism, President Enrique Penaranda's nine-man Cabinet resigned...
...problem has haunted President Penaranda. After the strike was put down, a mixed U.S.-Bolivian commission, in response to public indignation in Bolivia and the U.S., investigated the mines, made recommendations which the President promised would be carried out. They never were. Now, President Penaranda had the choice of improving conditions or forming a strong-arm military government...
...Peru a 110-year-old frontier dispute is heating up again, with anti-U. S. elements in Peru claiming that the U. S. has promised its support to Ecuador in return for bases on the Galapagos Islands. (A lie, says Washington. ) In Bolivia pro-U. S. President General Enrique Penaranda del Castillo faces trouble from a Leftist front...