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...National Congress and the presidential palace. Finally, after a long ceremony, the crowd's wait was rewarded: Bolivia's old and new Presidents appeared side by side on the balcony of the Congress. Both acknowledged the cheers, but the enthusiasm was reserved for Hernán Siles Zuazo, 69, Bolivia's second civilian leader in 18 years of almost uninterrupted, often harsh and nearly always corrupt military rule...
Newly installed in the presidential palace, Siles Zuazo told TIME South America Bureau Chief Gavin Scott last week that he includes the sick economy and the cocaine trade among his highest priorities. "We must defend the cultivation of coca," he insists, "since from time immemorial it has been chewed by our people to relieve pain. But we must fight to the death for the repression of drug traffickers who take the leaves and make cocaine." This puts the new President in a delicate position: some military men have quietly warned they will resist any attempt to crush the profitable business...
...Viloco, a mining community of 4000 inhabitants, both miners and campesinos had been anxiously awaiting the fulfillment of the previous month's democratic elections in which Hernan Siles Zuazo, a center-left candidate, had won a clear plurality. Zuazo was to be inaugurated August 6. When news of the military coup reached Viloco, the response was swift and unanimous. The miners' union called a general strike and formed a 12-member steering committee to coordinate the resistance. The committee included representatives of miners, their wives and relavaderos, Marginal workers not formally hired by the mining company. Action was taken immediately...
...magnitude of political repression by the military has made organized opposition to Garcia Meza over the past year virtually impossible. Siles Zuazo has established a government-in-exile based in Lima, Peru which, combined with clandestine political work within the country, may eventually pose a forceful challenge to the military regime. In the meantime, political stability will depend on other factors. The regime has survived economically so far because of the repeated lenience of the international financial community. At the time of the coup, Bolivia's foreign debt was $1.9 billion, $170 million of which came due in December. Within...
Hernan Siles Zuazo, who won the election in June of last year, had promised to clamp down on the cocaine traders. The statement may have lacked conviction, but the military leaders were not willing to risk their 800 million per year business to find out. The subsequent coup brought to power a cocaine mafia that includes even the president Luis Garcia Meza. Informants within Bolivia report that cocaine production now has become centralized, efficient and much more tightly controlled. The losers are Indian peasants, who no longer can afford to chew coca because its price has risen astronomically. With...