Bolivia: The War Goes On
UnpublishedFebruary
1974
Volume:
8
Number:
2
Article
Donna Katzin
In June 1972 John Connally, President Nixon's personal emissary to Latin America, relayed the administration's "warmest wishes" to Bolivian President Hugo Banzer Suarez, praising the dictator's "great courage" and promising him full cooperation and aid in the future. Connally's trip to La Paz confirmed a basic U.
NACLA
In November 1972, NACLA interviewed Rene Zavaleta Mercado in Santiago, Chile. Zavaleta is a National Director of the Bolivian Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), and was one of the Party's founders.
Ruth Needleman
Mutun, located in Southeastern Bolivia, is a stone's throw from Brazil. Its mines contain the largest deposits of iron and manganese-an estimated 40,000 million tons-in Latin America, and the third largest in the world.
Steve Volk
Che Guevara saw Bolivia as one of the weakest links in the long imperialist chain. A country with a rich history of worker and peasant struggles, including the democratic- bourgeois revolution of 1952, Bolivia still bears the weight of a reactionary bourgeoisie, an oppressive military, and no small number of U.
NACLA
World reaction to the Chilean military junta that overthrew the Unidad Popular government on September 11, 1973, has been overwhelmingly negative. Unable to gain the international stature it needs to attain political and economic stability, the junta is becoming more repressive and desperate daily.
NACLA
The miners have long been in the vanguard of the revolutionary movement in Bolivia. Their national federation, the Federacion Sindical de Trabajadores Mineros de Bolivia (FSTMB), founded in 1944, served not only as a coordinating body for their struggle but also as a clearing house where strategies were debated and ham- mered out by union delegates before being taken back to the miners .
Steve Volk
The world's knowledge of Bolivia is quite limited. Yet it is only because of Bolivia's tin and its tin-miners that the world knows anything at all.