The Quemado Palace, Bolivia’s presidential seat, has one entrance marked “RB” for Republica de Bolivia. Nowadays wits in La Paz insist that the initials actually stand for Rene Barrientos, the present ...

It was a classic Bolivian happening, part brute force and part black magic, asking more questions than it answered! A sea of gold braid, army olive and air-force blue swept silently out of the ...

Now that it is all over, Bolivian President René Barrientos finds himself in the unusual position of being somewhat thankful for the guerrilla uprising led by Che Guevara and his Cubans. The ...

Air Force General Rene Barrientos is a swinger who flies his own DC-3, likes the girls so much that until very recently he maintained two families at once. Barrientos also has the kind of charisma ...

Plotting against the government has long been a national sport in Bolivia. And denouncing subversive plots—real or imagined—is the government’s favorite way of knocking off political enemies. Last ...

René Barrientos, 45, the air force general who bosses Bolivia’s revolutionary junta, is a sort of Steve Canyon of the Andes — handsome, dashing, and almost too lucky to be true. Since 1962, he has ...