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...Smitest Thou Me? The Bolivian regime of Provisional President Gualberto Villarroel last week discovered and scotched a plot to overthrow it. Warned in the nick of time, the Government caught one conspirator actually handing out cash to soldiers. Bigger fish captured were ex-Minister of War Ernesto Hertzog, two generals, and Lawyer Nestor Galindo, charged with distributing a 20,000,000 peso ($450,000) corruption fund. Biggest fish: German-born Argentine-naturalized Tin Magnate Mauricio Hochschild, jailed as principal...
Hochschfld's arrest meant that the Villarroel Government had declared total war on the three great tin companies (Patino, Hochschild, Aramayo), which traditionally dominate Bolivia. Last President to oppose the tin barons was German Busch, who died in 1939. Officially he committed suicide, but many Bolivians believe that he was murdered...
...Bolivia, the U.S. decided not to recognize the Villarroel Government until it sheds all pro-Nazis...
...Bolivian Government of President Gualberto Villarroel, suspected of totalitarian connections and unrecognized except by Argentina, tried to clean itself up last week. Finance Minister Dr. Victor Paz Estenssoro, intellectual leader of the December revolt which put the regime in power (TIME, Jan. 3), announced that the Government had expropriated all Axis firms. The day before, three members of the regime quit...
...State Department's recently stiffened opinion, the Villarroel regime still has to earn recognition...