Il potere dittatoriale favorisce, inoltre, l'arricchimento fraudolento dei gruppi dirigenti, assicurando ad essi l'impunita nei propri intrallazzi. Questi due modi di governare (la repressone e la corruzione) contribuiscono alla formazione di una classe dirigente, pubblica e privata, civile e militare, che accumula potere e proprieta e s'oppone, in blocco, ai settori operai e contadini. Tale classe dirigente e composta di diversi gruppi: l'alta burocrazia dello Stato (civile e militare), il settore privato (industriale, bancario, delle miniere, del grosso commercio), e l'industria agricola orientale. In questo contesto, l'alta burocrazia statale giuoca un ruolo di catalizzatore, poiche dispone del monopolio della forza, gestisce la parte piu importante dell'economia nazionale, sostiene alcuni settori privati, controlla l'insieme del territorio nazionale. All'interno di essa, chi detiene il margine di manovra piu _ampio sono i militari, che possono mettersi in qualunque momenta alla testa dello Stato e possono contare fin d'ora, tra le proprie file, su tecnici e amministratori in grado di sostituirsi ai civili per la gestione dei settori-chiave dell'economia nazionale. SUMMARY Since August 1971 Bolivia has been under the yoke of a military dictatorship. Despite relative economic prosperity brought about by considerable receipts from sales of tin, petroleum and gas as well as by foreign loans and subsidies, the dictatorship uses its power to superexploit workers and peasants, and represses the slightest expression of free popular will. Dictatorial rule, moreover, looks kindly on the fraudulent self-enrichment of the most powerful groups and guarantees them against punishment for their corrupt practices. These two methods of governing (repression and corruption) are contributing to the formation of a ruling class, both public and private, civil and military, which is accumulating power and property and which is opposed, as a blok, to the peasant and working class sectors. This ruling class is composed of various groups: the higher (civil and military) state bureaucracy, the private industrial, banking, mining and large commercial sector, and eastern agro-industry. Within this ensemble the higher state bureaucracy plays the role of a catalyst in so far as it has at its disposal the monopoly of force, manages the most important part of the national economy, supports certain parts of the private sector and controls the entire national territory. And within this state bureaucracy the military have the widest scope for manoeuvre since they can place themselves at the head of the state at any time, and can rely on administrators and technicians from within their own ranks who are capable of taking over from their civilian counter-parts the management of the key sectors of the national economy. 74
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