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Essays
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Bolivia
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 Strategic
and Political Dimensions of the Brazil-Bolivia Gas Pipeline Project. A
report to Technoplan, São Paulo. April 1993.
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El
Alto de La Paz: A Report to the World Bank on the Origins and Prospects of
Poverty in Bolivia. (1985)
A 30,000-word study of the growth of La Paz into a giant peasant market,
examining how an urban society relapses into ruralism and becomes
increasingly dependent on foreign food donations for survival. Lengthy
appendix presents detailed taped interviews with individual survivors
illustrating modes of survival during the 1984-85 hyperinflation.
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Bolivia:
The Price of Tin. Part I: Patino Mines & Enterprises. Part II: The
Crisis of Nationalization, American Universities Field Staff, West Coast
South America Series, Vol. XXI, Nos. 1 & 2, 1974. A report on the
economic and political development of the Siglo XX tin mine, the world’s
greatest tin deposit and a cauldron of revolutionary politics. Parts I and
II deal with the creation of an industrial infrastructure on the altiplano
and then the regression to pre-industrial forms of labor.
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"Bolivians
Enraged by Expulsion of Clerics Who Urged Social Reform", The
Philadelphia Bulletin, September 28, 1970. The exiling of leftist
priests which led to street riots and the fall of the Ovando regime.
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"Slow
Death in the Mines", The New Leader, June 6, 1966. A life-study
of a mining community 12 years after the revolution.
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."Surgery
in the Mines", The Economist, April 2, 1966. After the battle.
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"Bolivia’s
Mines Yield Tin and Violence", The Wall Street Journal
(editorial page), January 12, 1966. The army’s battle with the miners and
its economic causes.
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"Go
East, Young Man", The Economist, November 13, 1965. Economic
development of the Bolivian Oriente.
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