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For Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, the recently settled grape strike was more than La Huelga, The Strike. It was La Causa-The Cause of economic parity and social dignity for Mexican-Americans. The Spanish-speaking field hands who harvest California's crops are, Chavez...
Over the weekend, Chavez won a contract with the biggest grower in the valley, Inter-Harvest Inc., which is connected with the giant United Fruit. Worried that a boycott of United Fruit bananas might replace the celebrated grape boycott, Inter-Harvest agreed to wages well above the Teamsters demands and...
The bloodless takeover itself was un remarkable in a country which, during its 144-year history, has had 185 changes of government, mostly by coups. The ousted civilian President, Lawyer Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, was serving' as Vice President last April when President René Barrientos, the flamboyant ex...
His wife found him weak after an eight-day hunger strike but still eager for news of Paris' art and cinema circles and of the moon landing. "If I were with you in Paris," Regis Debray said to Wife Elizabeth, "we would have spent all night seeing this marvel...
Denied Admission. Barrientos seemed so likely to finish the remaining 15 months of his four-year term-a South American rarity-that his sudden death left the government in confusion. Vice President Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, 43, hurried to Quemado Palace at the news -and was denied admission by guards...