Word: altiplano
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...regime. Living costs for the nation's 3,500,000 Indians, cholos (half breeds) and whites had zoomed 200% since 1939. Builders had never finished the highway (started with the help of U.S. funds) that would have given underfed population centers on the wind swept, 12,000-ft, altiplano food from the fertile lowlands. The $25,000,000 capital of Bolivia's RFC-like Development Corp. had been heavily tapped without bringing the country nearer to supplying its own essential food and clothing. Landlocked Bolivia still depended on imports for meat and wheat, had not got over...
...spoke Spanish and wore European dress. The rest spoke only the ancient Indian languages, Quechua and Aymara. They wore native clothes-wide, multicolored belts, bright ponchos. Some of the men wore flat hats like Catholic priests. Others had "lluchus" (knitted woolen helmets) against the biting winds of the altiplano...
From the bleak altiplano of Bolivia, the revolt of the traffic cops (TIME, Jan. 3) strutted out on a world stage. It sent a chill of apprehension throughout all Latin America. It scared the U.S. State Department into unseemly confusion. It even touched, lightly, the relations between Soviet Russia and the Americas...
...earthy name of Damasco Maldonado. But he had the power to look into the future and the past and the thoughts of men; he cured sick llamas and women & children, got rid of bad ghosts and made things tough for his enemies. In the small Aymara pueblos of the Altiplano and among the Indies who worked the copper mines near the Chilean and Peruvian borders, his name was spoken with reverence. On festive days thousands of Indians crowded Lake Titicaca's shores, watched in awe and admiration as Paka-Jake swam: no mortal, sensible Indian would think of swimming...