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Thus ended, at least temporarily, the political career of one of Latin America's most fascinating and controversial statesmen. Paz was one of the organizers of the 1952 revolt that overturned the tin barons and emancipated the Bolivian population from virtual serfdom. As President for all but four years since then, he pushed through needed tax reforms, redistributed land, built roads and hospitals, and began a program to resettle 500,000 Bolivians from the barren plateau to the more fertile valleys. A firm friend of the U.S., he gave ardent support to the Alliance for Progress, created so favorable...
...Form. Everyone from taxi drivers to statesmen quotes his whimsical, rustic verses, many of which are too racy to be aired over the radio. He has sold nearly 1,000,000 record albums, as well as 50,000 copies of a $30 collection of his songs. For his opening at the Bobino, he received 10,072 letters of congratulation from his adoring fans...
None of the great religious leaders are worthy of being the exclusive subject and title of a course, no statesmen, no scientists
...Uncle Toms," he insists. "We are statesmen. We cannot be saved as a people unless America is saved as a nation...
...nothing: "Not the shadow of a force or of an organization at my side. In France, no following and no reputation. Abroad, neither credit nor standing." Four years later, the obscure and penniless general had helped liberate France, become its first postwar President, and taken his place among world statesmen of the first rank. History records no more telling example of the will to power...