Word: andes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the Argentine to the Andes (he crossed them three times), to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador. Colombia. Panama, Central America, Mexico, Tschiffely & beasts plowed through jungles, swamps, deserts, mountain passes, across swinging bridges, in fair & foul weather. Once Tschiffely, on a dark night, tried to drive his comrades over a precipice; their horse sense saved him. Once Gato refused to budge; Tschiffely found he was facing a quicksand. Tschiffely refuses to manufacture adventures, but admits that once he had to shoot in self-defense. He often had passport trouble and was occasionally taken for a spy, but by the time...
...grim-faced man, each freighted with five pretty, nervous and very young women, dashed and slithered over the mountain road from Chile to Argentina, plowed with whining gears through deepening snow, finally bogged down in a great drift just beneath the towering statue of "The Christ of the Andes...
...even the Statue of Liberty is more famed among Latins. Thirty-one years ago Argentina and Chile renounced war in a spirit profoundly Christian, melted down hundreds of cannon to cast "The Christ of the Andes." Last week the huge figure, standing guard between two nations as their Prince of Peace, towered majestic and compassionate above the snow-bogged motorcade. With his left hand the Savior supports a cross taller than himself. The right hand is raised in benediction. Darkness came on as the drivers of the eight sedans jumped out and began vainly to shovel. Slowly the snow-whipped...
Even on zero nights Chilean policemen must patrol the pass beneath "The Christ of the Andes." Stabbing the dark with electric torches they discovered the stalled motorcade. The policemen did not ask to see passports, for passports are no longer needed between Argentina and Chile. But to find in eight shabby sedans eight shifty-eyed men and 40 young brides & seamstresses was a coincidence pointing to only one thing: the brothels of Buenos Aires...
Making a blanket arrest on the charge of trafficking in women and children, the Chilean police helped to dig the motorcade out, hurried it to the frontier town of Los Andes. There the brides & seamstresses confessed that they had been recruited in Santiago and Valparaiso to work in the casitas of Buenos Aires. They gave their ages as between 14 and 25. A few said they had been "lured" from home by promises of a motor ride to see the sights of Buenos Aires...