STRIKE SITUATION IN BOLIVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002800460008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 3, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

- "Approved For Release 2001/11/23 : CIA-RDP82-00457R002800460
CLASSIFICATION U
CENTRAL. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
MFORMATION ..PT co NO.
COUNTRY
Bolivia
DATE DISTR.
3 June 1949
SUBJECT
Strike Cituation in Bolivia
NO. OF PAGES
3.
PLACE
`ACQUIRED
25X1A
A
eturn to CIA Library'
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
DATE OF INFO. 25X1 C
CONFIDENTIAL
SUPPLEMENT T
25X1X REPORT NO.
l,,. La Paz continues to be quiet. Textile workers in the city are on strike but
there has been no violence to date and there is considerable division i mong
the jorlsera over the strike. The railway strike continues but the government
in preparing to move some trains, using soldiers and retired onployeesa
2a The government appears to b gaining ground but the situation is still serious.
t!orkers at the Hochschild Unificada nine at Potosi are on strike and the Americans
have left for "uore? The pining industry is largely paralyzed.
3u t;ario Diez de t'edina, secretary of the Executive Committee of the 12M and actin;
party head in Bolivia during the absence of Victor Paz a atenssoro, was captured
by La Par, police on 3.. June o
It has been reported that Juan Lech in and other n thnt deportees In Antofagasta, Chile,
have been meeting in the Paraguayan
This document is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
Next Review Date: 2008
t?o';,r,nent No
1`J C'HANGE
Auth:
go", am
By cADLE Date:
CONFIDENTIAL
CLASS! RCATION
Approved For Release 2001/11/23 : CIA-RDP82-00457R002800460008-7