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NDD, I was in Bolivia in the early 80's. Just about the time Klaus Barbie was taken back to France(just a coincidence). At that time most of the decent troops were kept on the borders in conditions that were appalling. The military attache flew in food and shoes to a few of the units, they were kept away from the capitol because of fears of a coup. A Coup did occur while I was there. We were rescued by a Texas Aggie who was part of the coup of all things. We did meet the head of the Bolivian Navy, they had a few PT boats on Lake Titicaca(sp). There is a huge mural in the Bolivian Army Staff college of Chile committing atrocities and Bolivians paying them back. Coups are or used to be the way they changed govts there, only the military got the vote by deciding if they would or would not support the coup. Had a nice meal w/ Barbies nephew, tremendous number of folks speaking Spanish mit der Cherman accent, great beer lousy water.
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