Reshuffle in Bolivia
(S'.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright/ LA PAZ. President Banzer of Bolivia has carried out his third Cabinet reshuffle in five months, dropping four Ministers in the wake of a peasant revolt crushed by the Army this month. In the complex reshuffle, announced by the president late last night and involving eight Ministries, he brought two new Army colonels into the Government, dropping two other colonels and two civilians. According to the Government, 13 peasants died when troops supported by tanks and aircraft dislodged them (from barricades thrown up outside the city to protest at ■the doubling in price of essential foods. Roman Catholic groups, however, have ■ publicly claimed that at least 100 peasants died.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33463, 19 February 1974, Page 8
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