IN BOLIVIA, ILLITERACY CURBS ANTI-U.S. DRIVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300010003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 27, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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r~1 ri~p~o~-~rv Cr9rbs An ti- U. S. Drive,
fin o v.La,~
Such is the power of the a !/ l w rd /w
t campaign that an increasing
of unsophisticated x r1?' '~ t~a F ter rr..? F t ~t i ky R . s tf jb rs I
dTrrades in the Press number
Bolivians are coming to be %
t `ail to Reach Most lieve that the C.I.A. is indeed
capable of casting spells and
of Population, wielding other supernatural
powers. . ,
By H. J. MAIDENBERG - HE more sophisticated Bo-
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60 Ri ihM New York TIM" 1 ` liviiins, for their part,
latest
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i today is the continued friend-,
liness that so many Bolivians language -- which was well
` manifest toward North Amer- receive dehheree and
car EurSoria e.
Icons. Gamarra, it was finally re-
Since the left-wing military leased with Spanish subtitles
coup d'dtat here Sept. 26,
the after being banned by the
1 'Tha Talk the Guar vll dux- which, he said, has been "the
rabans
pangs ope
economic ? and social., main
of n,t 17. Bolivian
,:cla 4q t,x,c " I? - outtl is CMdacUA!A6-,~.?
-"the relatively few literate-.}}`` ac as of Jornada all afternoon daily. Tho play on 5panisla`?
Bolivians are treated each:xilThe Unified States slie vcirci:for j.Iilistpartof,the attack on the U.S..intellI+
ever morn bitter i Arn) to'.i
A iced they will receive an
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one or the series of 80 carto
i In papel:, xxv,.. ?? -- -j 'rJnlents. ry,rGer ll,x: , iuu~a,...l
a wine. church-owned Presen- x..no "`,mmacka' the,'Mot, the-1
4 campaign unmarcnea ur 161, under the >uise of aiding pan , i
r?Western Hemisphere outside Indian community, is actual- j
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La Paz newspapers ,have ,deny ,.-
pl taxed their staffs years:
"Yawar Maliku" tells: of . a.
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Sonce agency. I:ca. eia atQ
o . orders the :130
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tira ,against the United ze he chief. who ,is, Unted States and, Gulf. ! arYlUlCt to I1rOteCt`'thcrY45C1V05 if they Collect entire fierle ~?
0 l ,? seiwoiiridectl' In the ntte,,,)at, rho has Bolivians still mention's
the coon-
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But because rnnst of the rest of the film de lets. how + ave
, ition l their other neighbor, d about t ief', try's 'traditional attitudes Brazil,
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?have a wide audience, app . i awar ma u Peru s rarely ': pro ernes
tar less anti gringo, perhaps the' death of the chief, which neighboring Atigerican p . p ?:',.:
because of the popularity of, causes , Jtis `people ? ,to, -raise the butt of crude jokes.
d t The change stems from
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~Iaign has fallen on new than human--certainly ar dwe o ?.
..,paper cartoonists. ? below the level of Negroes, accorded their anefnt labor Cause` ,of her, stand against
The radio stations, which. for ~ 'exaSnple:,. in the sugar-cane fields of >the jJnited states' and her
ilk " ends with northern Argentina. Even , nationalization of .,,'..North
STAT
k~prefer ? not to spec V and, in the context o An e , s o ?
I the burden ' of the ca'rs' an social life, something less arid" galivians no longer As for Peru,' Bolivians now :
the harsh treatment irespect their neighbor be-.
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- the -badly :woun ed c
,-Bolivians do eat red
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80 per cent of the population comes to La Paz to seek ;''3.owarcl its nl'ighbnrs. with awe because of her size
of 4.5 million are Indians and, medical aid and is :refused . 'Schc~ot, child's it na..lonaer.,and they tend to ignore; the
k S apish it because,he is an Indian rna}?ell,?.,dn j~ublC holidays "steady stream of Brazilians
they either do not know or.
t d - l h atin, "Death to Chile- across the ill-defined border,
Arncrican music an their "rifles and swear
. N..,oorth h' th:,t many stations his death. as they'. t'Chile's refusal to hold up
depend on Prup;laum ouYy?~ prepare w v .~
'.by. the United States Infor-i picssors; rials passing trout
`tnation Agency: The film's stand against, -port of Arica. The company 'I tried Consequently, many Bolt- birth. control is atlrib a d, t0 She mints to eat onaliza
;vians are fascinated by the the fact that the poP P
test . floe.
promotion device of .here is kept in check by all..
U 1 high . infant ' The friendly gestures have
s
the Jornada; which publis e
inordinate y tended to mitigate the bitter-
an anti-United . States car- death rate--mare than half
"CIA ? on the ? fonts born here do not ness engendered here by the
d
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,town, entitle
em year.. Forty 1879 War of the Pacl c,
. lower left hand corner of its live to their fifth ycarare which caused this landlocked
t.first page each day..In Boli-;per cent of the people to lose its outlet to'u
via, as. in Chile, the United said- to have soh,e foti In - of ? country
.States agency has become:a;tuberculosis or other crip- the sea
has become pap- j
iprime political, target. piing diseases. Emigration is l
ular because of -her recent;
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check.
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, Jornada s readers and ? another p p
thers are advised that W. The film denounces those offers to aid tetroleuimanand;
all 80 cartoons in' Indians and chollos (persons marketing p
Few Bolivians
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the series and present them' of mixed blood) who ape
16 t to the paper, they will re- or aspire to emulate Euro- ? mention that Argentina needs I
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an amulet to protect;peans or North Americans" ,those commodities and, alsF't
s to .prevent a furthe
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in their cu
. thm from the, C.I.A. Each rather than rega , ,
' them , flQYQ. to the left,.horo..;'.~,~?,y....,....-
day more people, literate or' tural heri'tage.
' not, are. becoming curious
about the. amulet, which no
Government's;;
one on the paper professes i HE Bo Man:
to,, struggle with the United
;States, whiOh;has reduced dk~
.becauso :~,of.,,,the,,
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