Few Latin American Presidents ever traveled their constituencies quite as thoroughly or as constantly as René Barrientos Ortuño of Bolivia. Barrientos chose this peripatetic presidency, which carried him even into isolated outposts, because he was a man of action; an ex-air-force officer, he infinitely preferred an airplane cockpit to his desk at Quemado Palace in La Paz.
Barrientos was also a man of vision who hoped to include in his own brand of forceful democracy the Indian campesinos whose Quechua dialect he spoke so well. "I have the idea that every citizen must...
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