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...Democracy (CONADE) called an emergency meeting in La Paz and ordered a general strike and road blockades in protest. At noon, before that meeting had ended, ambulances arrived at the meeting place and heavily armed paramilitary personnel jumped out, broke in, and arrested everyone present. Several, most notably Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, the Socialist president candidate, were killed on the spot...
...Bolivian University students who attended the meeting and subsequently escaped compiled a written description of the events. An excerpt describes Quiroga's assassination...
...Latins are not dependent because we are poor," says the socialist-minded Bolivian ex-Minister of Mines, Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz. "On the contrary, we are poor because we are dependent." In an effort to decrease its dependence on the U.S., Latin America is now looking elsewhere for economic and military aid, chiefly to Europe, Japan and even the Soviet Union. In the past few years Moscow has established diplomatic relations with eight Latin American countries and sharply increased its trade with them to more than $300 million annually. France has invaded a traditional U.S. aircraft market with Mirage jets...
...season crop in the lower valleys. Black-haired José Rojas, now 43, and Moon are mutual admirers, and Rojas refuses even to comment on the bad old days when he was anti-U.S. "Instead of the vague promises of the Communists," explains Joaquin de Lemoine Quiroga, governor of Cochabamba, "Point Four gave help, seeds, fertilizer and tools. The campesino, as an independent landowner, can form his own opinion...
Died. Santiago Casares Quiroga, 59, Premier of Spain when the civil war broke out in 1936; in Paris. A moderate leftist, Casares Quiroga was so busy trying to deal with Communist-led strikes and sabotage that the Franco-led rebellion caught him unprepared. He resigned, joined the Loyalist Civil Guard as a private, ended as an exile in Paris and London...