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...desperately poor, they are uneducated, and they live in the small huts and villages of the countryside--where the only signs of modernization are telephone wires strung along the rutted and tortuous roads. Most peasants work small plots of land for their food, live in thatched huts or rusted tin shacks, and try to raise pigs or chickens for trade in the city marketplaces...
...living by tilling the land. What they've done was to flee to the cities, where they live in squatters villages surrounding the cities. Many of them in squalor, even the best of them providing nothing but a single room in a mud walled hut, the best perhaps with tin roofs. The others are in much worse shape. There is very little in the way of sanitary facilities, and there is no room whatsoever for these men to provide the livelihood the one way they know how, through raising the food which they would...
...copper came from Cyprus, the tin from far-off Britannia, and the Greeks wrought the ensuing alloy, bronze, in myriad forms: vases, swords, tripods, safety pins, mirrors, votive statuettes, household icons and colossal public statues. Most of the large statues have been lost, broken up or melted down, but thousands of graceful hand-sized household objects and prized miniatures remain. Though fragmented and stained with the crusts, scars and patina of age, they nonetheless offer spirited insights into classical days and ways...
Call for Pay Cuts. With a freer political hand, Barrientos has been able to push ahead with his ambitious economic and social reforms, many of which are already bearing fruit. A vast modernization and economy drive has turned the deficit-ridden tin mines ($16.2 million in 1962) into a moneymaker and taxpayer for the first time. With the increase in tin production, export sales have risen 30% in the past three years to $150,400,000. Barrientos has also doubled petroleum production, built scores of new schools, hospitals and clinics, and added 20,000 miles of new roads...
...plus the military cost of the war, caused Bolivia to end the year with a $15 million budget deficit. To help hold down this year's deficit, Barrientos asked his Congress last month to cut his $13,000-a-year salary by 25%, and executives in the government tin company dutifully followed suit, requesting a 20% pay cut. "I hope other state agencies will do the same," Barrientos says. With the guerrilla war over, he realizes all too well that his temporary honeymoon with the tin miners and students could end any day. "We hope to better the situation...