Word: andes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traveling in motorboats. The peasants, they learned, had been pressured by Colombians into cultivating epadu, a shrubby small tree that can grow in the forest and attain a height of 10 ft. Epadu contains about 40% less active alkaloid than the more common coca variety cultivated in the Andes and yields less pure cocaine per kilo. But it costs the trafficker 60% less to buy and can sprout as many as 30 shoots, often very rapidly. "It's easier to grow than any other crop in the Amazon," says a U.S. embassy official. Brazil has also begun to master...
Every year the haunting stone ruins on the steep eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes are pummeled by up to 230 in. of rain. Getting to the site, 300 miles north of Lima, requires a five-day trudge through some of the highest tropical jungle in South America, a haven for jaguars, spectacled bears and giant anteaters...
Last week a University of Colorado scientist announced that he had recently led an expedition on that grueling trek. Reason: to launch a new study of what could be one of the magnificent "Lost Cities" of the Andes. The remarkably well-preserved complex, known as Gran Pajaten, is thought to have been built by an advanced pre-Incan civilization almost 1,500 years ago. Archaeologist Thomas Lennon, head of the expedition, believes that once excavated, the ancient site may rival even Machu Picchu, one of the grandest Incan ruins...
...Boeing 747 cargo plane swept in out of the night sky over the Andes. In accordance with a procedure established in earlier visits, it was guided to the far side of an international airport near Santiago, where passengers boarding commercial flights would not be able...
...violent force in 1980. Armed with submachine guns, rifles and dynamite, the guerrillas attacked police posts, army patrols, bridges, power stations and telecommunications lines. An estimated 120 police, government troops and civilians were killed and scores injured, bringing the death toll in the four-year guerrilla war in the Andes to more than...