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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300310083-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2006
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: December 27, 1959
• Content Type: NSPR

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number of unsophisticated I
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Tirades in the Press nBolivians are coming toy b
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++. f A PAZ, Bolivia-0ne indi- are still discussing the latest
cation of the high level :feature-length Bolivian film,
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!*or illiteracy in this land
unclilia
nd- the Condor"l
f
w
rie
tinued
today is the con which
as well
liness that so many Bolivians language
r- received
n u
r
manifest toward North Ame
byOscarSoria I
Dirc ted
scans. Gamarra, it was finally te-
Since the left-wing military leased with Spanish subtitles
coup d'ctat here Sept. the after being banned by the
the
and particularly since
of Mayor of La Paz as "a gross
nationalization
affront" to the United States,-,
Gulf Oil Corn-
~'TheTalk the which, he said, has been "the
erations
pang s op
i
?} - Oct. 17, Bolivian economic and social main-
Of of Bolivia- for many
taxed their staffs year
in an anti-United States press. Y a' arMallku" tells o-' a
"Corps yoth' ` who,
peace
,campaign unmatched in the
r, thi'>siaiding an
Western Hemisphere outside undeguise
Indian conmmunity, ofis actual-
STAT
1? in pap-- -tlrr]IneRld. n~-, ~..srA
\wing, church-owned Presen- chief unmasks thePlot, the I
cis to the far-left Jornada, yDuff ' is emasculated and , One. of the series of 80 anti-C.I.A. cartoons from the front,;
the relatively few literate k pa es of Jornada, an afternoon daily. The play on Spanislt?
Bolivians are treated eater ipTl e United States then 4 Word for ,ail is part ? of the, attack on the U.S..intelli?:, STAT
day to ever morn bitter orders the '8oliviaix Army to gercce agency. Readers are advised they will receive ani "
j tirades against the United seiz6 the chief; ~~ho is1 amulet' to protect"themselves if they collect entire series. i
`.,..' States and Gulf. eizC oclin the attempt, 'flit, Bolivians still mention%
?;United
But because most of the' rest' of the film depicts how ? over, hers alt red the cnun- their other nei,
Bolivians do not read -about the badly wounded chief';, try's traditional attitudes ept of ", he grr sizie
of its neighbors. we r awe becaus snore, the
per cent of the population conics to La Paz to seek 'toward.
so ,
of 4.5 million are Indians and, medical aid and. is refused ., School, children lto .longer.,, end they tend to' ig
.they either do not know or it because I he is an Indian rnarelt On public holidays steady stream of Brazilians
s~refer-not to speak Spanish. and, in the context of Ande fshouting, "Death to Chile- across the ill-defined border.
.-the burden of the cam- an sociai life, something less -ants' Bolivians no longer As for Peru,' Bolivians now
`';sign has fallen bn news- 'than human- certainly ,far dwell on the harsh treatment. respect. their neighbor be-
11 paper cartoonists. - - ?i c t, below they level of Negroes, accorded their migrant labor., cause` of -her, stand against
in the sugar-cane fields of rthe JJnited Statesa andt^he~c
d
s
shave a wide audience, appeal "Yawar Maunu en
n r ? .a ,:...,,,
far less anti-gringo, perhaps the death of the chief, which 'neighboring Peru Iokes.t
because of the popularity of, causes his people-,.to. .raise ,the butt of crude j
North American music and-.,their ' rifles and swear to The change stems from
th as they' 'Chile's refusal to hold up the'
s
ti
d
ea
on
e his
tthe fact that many sta
their op . , pment of
Gulf il th
aveng. rograms supplied' prepare to. battle throu
de e
ssin
Pend on _'
. infnr.l rials p g - --? -the
t
Sta
es
tnatfon Agency:` `The film's stana apaufsl.. ?+I ~? --' e-m-bargo-
many Bel hirtlr cnntrol is atLributcd to
ulf tion ship tnen s after net onaliza tried
P
vians are fascinated by the the fact that the p p an tio
heck
t
omotion. device of?here is kept in c
nfant' The friendly gestures harvr
i
F test higr
the Jorprnada, whist 'publishes inordinately
' anti-United States car- death rate--more than half tended to mitigate the bitter-
do not'. ess ennendercd here by the
i an
''toon entitled "C.LA." on the the infants born ear. Forty 1879 War of the Pacific,
1 ft hand corner of its live. to their fifth y 1 are 1 ? h caused this landlocked
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day more people, Mara a tural er g ?,
not, are , becoming curious
about the amulet, which no
one on the 'paper professes ; HL Bolivian: Government's
~o.haye seen. ,, ::::. .. ?~_?,. 5 ates,whieh'?hasreducedtaid;
becaus tes0., of,,..the . Gulf take,;;
Jornada s re
others are advised that if! The film denouncesersons marketing petroleum and.1
they clip all 80 cartoons in : Indians and chollos (P s ,natural gas. Few Bolivians
, ,the series and present them of mixed blood) who "aP
4 to the paper, they will re- or aspire to emulate Euro- mention that Argentina needs.
them att amulet to protect ;peens dr sin m their acuns" l~ ropes to previont a further
them from the C.I.A. Each rather than n re reg ovv t4':the left?fore...:.-
h its e
States agency has become: a;tuberculosis or ? ration is ; Argentina has become pop-4
,prime political target. piing diseases: Emig
aders and another population check., afar because of her recent,
94, to aid the Bolivians in ..}
tower
In Boli-
first page each day. per cent of the peak e ountry to lose its outlet to
c
' via as An Chile, the United said to have sotn+hci cripf the sea.