Word: altiplano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average native on the altiplano were to cook his meals over a cow-dung fire, the cow dung would have to be imported from the Argentine pampas. Cows are pretty scarce in Bolivia as a whole, and virtually nonexistent on the altiplano. The natives there use llama dung for fuel...
...been able to control and even use him. But back of Lechin are Communist labor leaders, who also plan to use him. Such Marxists are spreading the word among Bolivia's Indians that land reform is next, and a restlessness has already been noted on the altiplano. If Paz shoots the nationalist wad and fails, the door to Marxist revolution may be blown wide open. And if the Reds sneak in, Bolivia will indeed be back on the map of the world's trouble spots...
...Hills. Fighting raged on among the downtown skyscrapers, across the lawns of the upper-class residential districts and up the steep hills to the broad, 21-mile-high altiplano where the government generals had set up headquarters. By the afternoon of the third day, Good Friday, with 3,000 estimated killed and 6,000 wounded, army leaders signed a ceasefire. M.N.R. leaders proclaimed their triumph from the palace balcony. Then many of the battle-grimed revolutionaries, followed by weeping women, marched to Mass through the cobbled streets, behind the image of the martyred Christ, in La Paz's traditional...
Life on the treeless, 2½-mile-high Andean altiplano is about as bleak and miserable as anywhere in the world. Seeking release from this reality, the impoverished mountain Indians drink so much hard liquor that whole villages are sometimes knocked out for days at a time. The United Nations commission for technical assistance to Bolivia, currently investigating all phases of Bolivian life, has just about decided that drinking is the country's No. 1 social evil, surpassing even the coca-chewing habit...
Twelve-Mile Limit. Protestant missionaries, particularly the Seventh Day Adventists, have done what little they could to curb the mass drunks. Catholic authority over the Indians is at a low ebb because there are so few priests on the altiplano...