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This was gratifying news for President Hernán Siles Zuazo, who has backed the program with everything from a hunger strike to threats to resign, and for George Jackson Eder, an old Latin America hand who left International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. to supervise Bolivia's National Monetary Stabilization Council. But Juan Lechin, executive secretary of the powerful workers' confederation, was looking out for labor and labor alone. At the confederation's second congress last week, he burst into an impassioned defense of the featherbedding privileges that the workers took for their own after bringing the Nationalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Stable | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...speech at the labor confederation, President Siles Zuazo pleaded, warned and quoted statistics to prove that austerity must stay. But as the workers' congress went on, labor sentiment still favored a general wage hike, with a general strike the alternative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Stable | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...historic, all-embracing economic and political revolution. M.N.R. nationalized the major industry, tin mining, confiscating the properties of the powerful tin barons. It revamped land tenure, giving indentured farm hands plots of their own -"like Lincoln's freeing the slaves," says President Hernan Siles Zuazo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Toward a Free Economy | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Standing beneath the oil portraits of Bolivia's greatest heroes of the past, a man who is himself an authentic hero of Bolivia today will receive this week the gold medallion and green-red-yellow sash of the presidency. Hernan Siles Zuazo, 42, is following in his father's steps: 30 years ago, Hernando Siles stood in the same spot in the Chamber of Deputies to receive the presidential insignia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Fighter to the Fore | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...rush from the airport to the final reception for the visiting Argentine. Next day Aramburu sped off to Uruguay for a tumultuous one-day visit before returning to Buenos Aires-and Kubitschek settled down to await the arrival a few hours later of Bolivia's Hernan Siles Zuazo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Comings & Goings | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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