The memory of a bloodily crushed strike eight months ago raised an uproar last week in the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies. The strike was that of Tin King Simon I. Patino's miners (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942); the uproar came when leaders of Bolivia's extremist parties accused the Government of responsibility for the bloodshed that followed Army intervention.* Under the barrage of criticism, President Enrique Penaranda's nine-man Cabinet resigned.
The problem has haunted President Penaranda. After the strike was put down, a mixed U.S.-Bolivian commission, in response to public indignation in Bolivia and the U.S., investigated the mines, made recommendations which the President...
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