BL–3. Editorial Note
Growing labor unrest and reverses for the Bolivian economy threatened the Bolivian National Stabilization Program. Despite the wage freeze, which had been decreed on January 9 by President Hernan Siles Zuazo, labor groups demanded wage increases, and there was some indication that the Government might relax the decree. A heavy drain on exchange reserves, triggered by the Government’s announcement on January 24 of the discovery of a revolutionary plot, and aggravated by unfavorable developments on the international tin market, continued unabated. Documentation concerning these problems is contained in Department of State Decimal File 824.10 and ARA/WST Lot 62 D 16, “Stabilization Program.”